And at every step of the short way, people smugly displaying their cool: 'Oh, primitive luddites and their unfounded fear of the wonders of tech. We've been living in Fukushima for 100 years, just build the damn nuclear plant on the seashore already. What could possibly go wrong? A tsunami? That's medieval superstition.'.

Took all of 25 years for a battery powered tablet to be more powerful than a room-sized supercomputer, MFLOP for MFLOP.

https://www.theregister.com/2012/03/08/supercomputing_vs_hom...