@etchedpixels @cstross @graydon Is it the _resources_ we don't have, though? Or something else? We're seeing the limits of IT as we currently understand it — I think.
A breakthrough in, say, human-machine interaction, in machines being able to perceive the world and act in it as we do; that's not going to be solved by more computing _power_ but by a breakthrough in techniques. If at all.