Yeah, but what can it do after that second is over, huh?!

There's something about this sentence in today's NY Times that just makes me incredibly uneasy:

"The Dawning Nebulae computer has achieved a sustained speed of 1.27 petaflops — the equivalent of one thousand trillion mathematical operations a second."

Maybe it's the part where a computer can do more things in a second than I'll do in my entire life.