Often thought about all the walking GFLOPS in our pockets, thinking "man we have Cray just to swipe lolcats". This comment http://tek.io/1fwoxZH from this article http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/classics-rock/the-80s-super... explains how even old Crays are still more efficient for real work.
Still we have uber capable thingies doing nothing. We don't need faster, we need to teach what they can do to people and let them have it their way.