Editing Information Age (section)

===Computation===
The world's technological capacity to compute information with human-guided general-purpose computers grew from 3.0 × 10<sup>8</sup> [[Million instructions per second|MIPS]] in 1986, to 4.4 × 10<sup>9</sup> MIPS in 1993; to 2.9 × 10<sup>11</sup> MIPS in 2000; to 6.4 × 10<sup>12</sup> MIPS in 2007.<ref name="HilbertLopez2011"/> An article featured in the [[Academic journal|journal]] ''[[Trends in Ecology and Evolution]]'' in 2016 reported that:<ref name="InfoBiosphere2016" />

{{blockquote|[[Digital electronics|Digital technology]] has vastly exceeded the [[Cognition|cognitive]] [[Intelligence|capacity]] of any single human being and has done so a decade earlier than predicted. In terms of capacity, there are two measures of importance: the number of operations a system can perform and the amount of information that can be stored. The number of [[SUPS|synaptic operations per second]] in a human brain has been estimated to lie between 10^15 and 10^17. While this number is impressive, even in 2007 humanity's [[General purpose technology|general-purpose computers]] were capable of performing well over 10^18 instructions per second. Estimates suggest that the storage capacity of an individual human brain is about 10^12 bytes. On a per capita basis, this is matched by current digital storage (5x10^21 bytes per 7.2x10^9 people).}}