Most computers today, for all of their potential speed, are largely a mistake, based on the provenly unscalable Von Neumann architecture, controlled with one of the most shortsighted languages of all time, x86 assembly. They are almost unfathomably inefficient. Their processors have close to a billion transistors, most of which sit idle while a tiny fraction of a fraction of them perform some operation. Three quarters of a processor may be devoted to the quagmire of cache memory and its demands. All of this brute force horsepower gets stacked in an ever higher tower of babel in the relentless race to perform more sequential calculations per second. If people only know what engineering was required to implement branch prediction and 20 stage deep pipelines… It’s like seeing being the walls of a meat packing plant. You just don’t want to know.