Based on the exponential growth of information technology - or more specifically, computing - it can be estimated that by the year 2080, a $1000 2.2 pound laptop will be able to compute 10E+42 calculations per second. This would have the capability to perform the equivalent of all human thought over the last ten thousand years in ten microseconds. It would function at the equivalent brain power of ten million billion human civilizations (p.134,135 of The Singularity is Near).
So what does this mean to investors and traders? Don't waste $100,000 on a Chinese nanny!