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I would expect the higher speed of a "molecular" (biological) computer to come from a massively parallel architecture, or perhaps a fully holographic system, which cannot currently be done with electronics. The brain is abysmally slower than even a C64, but many processes it can handle faster and better than the largest supercomputers. When we start "growing" computers, all us Von-Neumanites will have to start learning again from scratch. Not at all sure this is what either Rodney or the writer of the book intended, but that was the way I took it. Rick