Exploring the Machines of Tomorrow
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December 29, 2020
We are constructing a futuristic society which is populated by autonomous flying machines, houses are printed on-demand, and our companions are highly evolved robots. These advancements are allowing us to re-imagine and re-engineer our world. Here we explore the machines of the not-so-far future.
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he machine was shaped like a plus-sign and filled a large room. It was composed of 400,000 transistors and more than 100 miles of wiring. The CDC 6600 was a force to be reckoned with, the world’s first supercomputer that operated at speeds ten times faster than any other computer available in 1964. Ultimately, 100 of the machines were sold, even to clients beyond the usual government and military customers. Just five years later, the machine’s faster successor, the CDC 7600, toppled the machine’s 3,000,000 instructions per second speed record.
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