ENIAC, the first programmable general-purpose electronic computer, completed in 1945, could execute four hundred floating-point operations per second: 400 FLOPS. Nearly 80 years later, in 2022, the fastest supercomputer can perform over one quintillion operations per second: 1.1 exaFLOPS. It took us only 80 years to progress from 400 FLOPS to 1,100,000,000,000,000,000 FLOPS. Once you have enough atoms, you start doing chemistry, once you have enough molecules, you start doing biology, and onc...
