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Forget the iMac, I want a Matrioshka Brain

January 14th, 2002 by Klintron

Matrioshka Brains are hypothetical supercomputers that “consume the entire power output of stars (~1026 W), consume all of the useful construction material of a solar system (~1026 kg), have thought capacities limited by the physics of the universe and are are essentially immortal.” Link (via Boing Boing).

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