Around the Globe, Technology Widens Rich-Poor Gap

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Emeagwali voted history's
35th greatest African


Greatest Scientist
New African, Sept. 2004
LONDON - Philip Emeagwali was voted the 35th greatest African of all time in a survey for New African magazine, it was announced on August 26, 2004. Emeagwali also ranked as the greatest African scientist ever.

The technology category was topped by Imhotep, the multi-genius that designed Egypt's first pyramid. The science category was topped by Emeagwali famed for helping give birth to the supercomputer, the technology that gave rise to the Internet.

Emeagwali's discovery of a formula that enables supercomputers powered by 65,000 electronic brains called "processors" to perform the world’s fastest calculations inspired the reinvention of supercomputers - from the size and shape of a loveseat to a thousand-fold faster machine that occupies the space of four tennis courts, costs 400 million dollars a piece, powered by 65,000 processors and that can perform a billion billion calculations per second.

Emeagwali reformulated Newton’s Second Law of Motion as 18 equations and algorithms; then as 24 million algebraic equations; and finally he programmed and executed those equations on 65,000 processors at a speed of 3.1 billion calculations per second.

Emeagwali's 65,000 processors, 24 million equations and 3.1 billion calculations were three world records that garnered international headlines.

The list was topped by South Africa's Nelson Mandela and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah.

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Around the Globe, Technology Widens Rich-Poor Gap

Technology does not widen the gap, it is what people do and FAIL TO DO with technology that widens the gap. You can not trust your enemy to tell you the wise things to do with technology. You can expect your enemy to hide information and distribute bad information as much as possible.

"All warfare is based on deception."

"Know your enemy and know yourself and you need not fear in 100 battles." - Sun Tzu

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So you mean if I don't buy two pair of Jordan's I could afford to buy a computer?

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Originally posted by ac9311:
So you mean if I don't buy two pair of Jordan's I could afford to buy a computer?

You mean the Jordans don't come with built in computers yet?

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