Advantages of computers
... serial speeds than conscious human thought, or human neurons, which perform approximately 200 calculations per second. (This approximation is contentious.) Transistors presently have a powerful 100 million to one speed advantage over neurons. The in principle capacity to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. The human brain can not be duplicated or "re-booted," and has all ready achieved "optimization" through design by evolution, making it difficult to further improve. The human brain does not physically integrate well, externally or internally, with contemporary hardware and software. The non-existence of "boredom" when performing repetitive tasks. Computers have proven extremely beneficial to kids with certain speech, audio, and motor limitations. Kids with special needs can use alternative input and output devices (assistive technologies) to interact with computers and do things that they normally could not accomplish independently. They ben...