It can also be seen as a sort of challenge: for the longest time what we could compute was limited by our hardware, and we ran close to its limits. Nowadays wha

It can also be seen as a sort of challenge: for the longest time what we could compute was limited by our hardware, and we ran close to its limits. Nowadays what we can compute is mostly limited by our imagination, and we run close to those limits. The gauntlet thrown down by that closing statement is to dream bigger.