You can Always Reconstruct what has been Destroyed

You can Always Reconstruct what has been Destroyed

1990 1 January 20 You can Always Reconstruct what has been Destroyed (277) America may have destroyed Japan in 1945 with its ‘super bomb’, but it Could not take away Japan’s potential with its computers, and now this latest supercomputers, Japan revolutionized its own economy in a mere matter of 45 years.

A report with a New York dateline, “Japan’s Bid to Excel the US in Super computers’ and reproduced in the Times of India (April 13, 1989, section 2, page 4) casts serious doubts on the USA’s ability to hold its own any longer in the field of super computers. Despite the USA’s long dominance in this area, it will, in 1990, be upstaged by Japan, which will be launching in world markets a super computer, which they rate as the fastest working machine in the world. This gloomy picture is confirmed by a study recently completed by the analysts of an American Computer Corporation.

The Japanese computer, named SX-X, can perform 20 billion operations of scientific calculations in one second flat. At this rate, it is 25 percent faster than the fastest American computer. Besides its perfect performance, it has another specialty : its relative cheapness.

This supercomputer has a key role to play not only in scientific research, oil exploration, weather forecasting etc., but also in national security, particularly in the field of nuclear weaponry.

America may have destroyed Japan in 1945 with its ‘super bomb’, but it could not take away Japan’s potential. With its computers, and now this latest supercomputers, Japan revolutionized its own economy in a mere matter of 45 years. Destruction, however massive, can never put an end to opportunities for construction. And the power of construction undoubtedly far exceeds that of destruction.