In the office to promote film production, for example, a grimy floor filled with tiny cubicles using clunky typewriters has been transformed into an open room with computers that, miraculously, process a growing number of shoots.

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The trading room itself is a low-ceilinged affair about the size of an average living room, with 13 computers lined up along three walls.

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At the Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind, in Riverdale, Maryland, there's a room with rows of computers and video monitors that enlarge text.

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The test subjects said they wanted to talk to their computer, but after five minutes of actually doing it, their throats were getting sore and the room, with everyone talking to their computers, was noisy and obnoxious.

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It is in this room, at this table, cluttered with laptop computers, network cables and files, where spirited discussion and debate about each individual candidate for admission to the academy takes place.

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What you see is a room full of computers, and next to it a classroom stuffed with people being trained to man them.

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Even more impressively, I could sit in my passenger seat holding a computer with 500, 000 times more processing power than computers that used to fill room and wirelessly access over 250 million computer networks around the world, whose content is indexed and can be searched at sites like Google in less than a fraction of a second.

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