What is the worlds fastest computer?
To put things in perspective, let’s start with the computer sitting on your desk — the computer you use on a day-to-day basis to browse the Internet, handle spreadsheets, create documents, etc. Most people have something like a Pentium computer running Windows, or a Macintosh. A computer like this can execute approximately 100 million instructions per second. Your particular machine might be twice that fast or half that fast, but that’s the ballpark. The fastest computer in the world is much faster than that, and it is sitting right on top of your shoulders! The human brain is an amazing computing device and the fastest processor available right now. Let me give you an example: Your desktop computer is just starting to get to the point where it can “understand” speech and take dictation, translating spoken words into written words. It can only understand one speaker, and that speaker has to train it for a
