I was reading about quantum computing, zero energy processing, and how in 2020 I can buy the equivalent of a human brain in processing for $1000. This is rather geeky.

Also 1 out of every 10 million calculations on a computer is an error. 1:10^10 is the acceptable "everything is fine" value. CPUs are sold at different speeds because slowing them down makes the error rates within acceptable limits. There may have been a 1 calculation glitch that threw off a floating point calculation. That would be an "instant price hike" followed by a correction.

There was a company I taught Linux to, they used 3 processors and "voted" on the correct answer. 3 votes that didn't elect a right answer was thrown back for recalculation. The processor error rate was then reduced to a *very* small number, instead of the standard rate. See http://www.cs.utah.edu/classes/cs794...pers/error.pdf if you want to see how likely errors actually are. Kinda scary.