However, by using a rather similar mentality, video game graphics chip manufacturer NVIDIA can now process high definition pixel manipulations at "gigaflop" speeds. So gigaflops are already in video games keeping young men in their rooms fighting people who control the other animated warriors from half a world away. THAT is what "gigaflops" can do now and will continue to do for the rest of this century.

BUT, that is not the major contribution to the 21st century. We are at the birth of an entire world, flying their own electric powered VTOLs, whose flight controls and navigation MUST BE under total computer management. That might work well if there is only one such craft owned by the CIA... But billions of people flying billions of little "planes" anywhere they program their flight computer to go is a very bad dream for folks like the FAA, who must keep the skies exclusively open for, and dominated by, commercial air traffic. The bottom line is: the FUTURE, that can change everything, has a serious problem with 20th century thinking about who has permission to "fly".

Into this, rides the white horse (not house) of a multitude of super computers all talking to each other, sharing data, and sending out little cell phone like RF permissions to all those potential aircraft that can be built in this century. Already, this is NOT blue-sky (pun intended) thinking. The FAA seriously wants Air Traffic Control to move away from men looking at analog Radar screens as they pass the control (direction, altitude, speed etc) of commercial flights from one human "controller" to another, all the time, as the plane flies across the nation, oceans, friendly and very unfriendly countries.

The FAA, this century, is certainly going to be one of the main operators of massively massive parallel computing to keep track and "CONTROL" of everything in the air. That is, AVIATION is no longer going to be for "pilots" since pilots cannot be trusted to fly their VTOLS or 737s safely and not into buildings as an act of international terrorism.

THAT is VERY bad for the "GENERAL AVIATION" community that wants to hot-dog little Cessnas from one impoverished rural airport to another. (you don't see a lot of them flying low over YOUR suburb, or over major city centers; do you?) BUT that is VERY GOOD news for the hundreds of millions of reasons to take off VERTICALLY and LAND in places that do NOT have the giant expense of "international air terminals" (a very 20th century idea). Soon, perhaps by 2060, billions and billions of gigaflops will be monitoring and instantly adjusting the flight paths of your grand children as they fly off to college or to YOUR mountain hideaway/retreat and/or sea-side retirement home.

GIGMEDIA CONSULTING has nothing to contribute to the future of "gigaflops" other than their very sustaining reason for their existence (other than playing video-games). For an aircraft to be seriously "ULTRA-LIGHT," most of what is now in an airplane must be put on the ground, including the pilot. We are already doing that by flying UAV drones over terrorist homelands, and are doing that from Las Vegas. We simply need to flop that over to things that go GIGAFLOP in the night. GIGMEDIA CONSULTING could help define the conversational architecture of the future of AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL for the real people who will have electric VTOLs in their back yard.