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[treonsverdery]

this is an idea on a way to make a worldwide computer with near a million times the number of CPUs as the fastest 2007 supercomputer

currently there is a currentgen windows CPU that uses 7.5 W; http://www.silentpcr...e609-page1.html perhaps three or four years from now that might be 3 W; three watts is near a tenth the power draw of a fluorescent tube light

with doubling efficiency effect I think 700 mw after 17 years

the light bulb has oodles of transistor light emitters like OLED; as these shift output the CPU modifies their brightness plus uses transistors to sense load to create a light tube that has 10 times less maintenance than fluorescent tubes these are much cheaper from a TCO perspective

[b]the light tubes talk to each other with wireless creating a globe spanning linked computer with cheap replacement parts that the humans demand be kept functional;
the CPUs watch us, light our way, and have a million times more power than the current fastest supercomputer

Edited by treonsverdery, 19 May 2008 - 09:59 PM.

[JohnDoe1234]

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[vyntager]

I for one welcome our new lightbulb overlords

[mitkat]

I for one welcome our new lightbulb overlords

*passes you large joint, continues listening*

[mitkat]

Seriously though, I'll bite:

the light tubes talk to each other with wireless creating a globe spanning linked computer with cheap replacement parts that the humans demand be kept functional;

can you explain this to me in more detail?

[Live Forever]

I think we should make a singularity from old car engines, but that is just me.

[Cyberbrain]

huh?

[forever freedom]

or use old cell phones. every year millions and millions of cell phones are wasted...

[nefastor]

I for one welcome our new lightbulb overlords

*passes you large joint, continues listening*

ROFLMAO my thought exactly, duuuude

Nefastor

[treonsverdery]

I like the idea that a light bulb which is actually a bunch of light emitters with light sensors plus cpu is also a machine that can do analog computations; there are numerous analog computer functions that such a light bulb can do

data storage: partially light an area such that the analog number .7777777775648654854846853863854848545 is stored at that area, then measure things like the hypotenuse of visible angles as they relate to each other; there is huge data storage capability

anyway I think people will like all seeing all reporting light bulbs that do massive amount of computation; maybe the grid computing value of a building will have value as well