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July 12, 2001 news release published by
America’s Sandia National Laboratories
announced that as a result of their work,
they had “approached the visual acuity of
the eye itself.” The report stated that using
64 computers, a digital image was produced that took them on-

ly seconds to acquire. 85
This is a most important development, yet one point
shouldn’t be forgotten. In as little as one-tenth of a second, hu-
man eyes form an image that takes up no more space than one
square millimeter on the retina. With this in mind, it can be seen
that the human eye is much faster and more functional than 64
computers, using the very latest technology.