At the speed of light, photons travel about 1 foot per nanosecond.
In other words, a modern 2 GHz processor would have time to execute at least one instruction between the time photons leave the screen, and the moment they reach your retina. Probably more than one, with multicore pipelined processors.
And yet today we wait and wait and wait for Windows to open a simple program.
Indeed... what happened?
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