Hasn't happened yet. A regular job at work involves kicking off a process that spreads itself across 100 nodes and takes a week, munching through tens of teraby

Hasn't happened yet. A regular job at work involves kicking off a process that spreads itself across 100 nodes and takes a week, munching through tens of terabytes of data. Even at home I'm processing 30GB-sized datasets, which understandably takes a couple of hours. And editing an hour-long video means a lengthy stage of thumb-twiddling. I think if computers were faster, we would simply invent new tasks that take a long time with them.