From Rubik to The Singularity to The Travelling Salesman: The big problems need the biggest computers

So there I was reading a jolly little “silly season” BBC Online story about the man who says he’s cracked a core problem with the Rubik’s Cube – when I came upon a sentence that slightly chilled me, and also makes me wonder yet again what the hell Google is up to: “Google stepped forward and offered to run the computation…