Give it time. ENIAC cost millions of dollars and took up a whole hall. 70 years later the processors we're using to post these comments cost 5-6 orders of magnitude less to produce 5-6 orders of magnitude more computations.
I think its s few more than 5-6 orders of magnitude on computations, ENIAC was slower than UNIVAC I, and this chart has UNIVAC I about 8+ orders of magnitude behind the listed recent desktop processors.
Actually, the comparison seems close on nominal (I was thinking real) price and compute if you are talking about mobile device processors.
It’s a popular myth propagated by American public. Funnily enough, in many European and Asian countries the opposite is deemed to be true.
The truth is that there has never been any conclusive evidence one way or the other.
“The first evaluation of the impact of human size on longevity or life span in 1978, which was based on data for decreased groups of athletes and famous people in the USA, suggested that shorter, lighter men live longer than their taller, heavier counterparts. In 1990, a study of 1679 decreased men and women from the general American population supported these findings.
In the present study data on the height, weight, and age at death of 373 men were obtained from records at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, San Diego, CA, USA. Men of height 175.3 cm or less lived an average of 4.95 years longer than those of height over 175.3 cm, while men of height 170.2 cm or less lived 7.46 years longer than those of at least 182.9 cm. An analysis by weight difference revealed a 7.72-year greater longevity for men of weight 63.6 kg or less compared with those of 90.9 kg or more. This corroborates earlier evidence and contradicts the popular notion that taller people are healthier.” [0]
