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Timeline: The Future

2006: Dual Core Cpu

2010: From this date computers will "disappear"? They'll Start making their way into our clothing and into the environment, and they'll be very tiny

2020: £500 buys a computer working at 10 quadillion, or 1016, calculations per second

2025: Computer are able to simulate the entire human brain

2030: Nonbiological intelligence matches human intelligence in range and subtlety; £500 buys a computer 1,000 times more powerful than the human brain

2045: The point of "singularity" is reached, when technical progress is so fast that unenhanced human intelligence can't follow it. One can no longer distinguish between our biology & our technology

22nd century: Our intelligence, biological and nonbiological combined, saturates the matter and energy around us and begins to spread throughout the universe