25 Years, 1000000X Improvement
The TOP500 supercomputer list, created by Jack Dongarra, ranks the fastest known computing devices on earth. It was started in 1992. The fun thing is that within 25 years, the performance of the winner in 1992 and the one that won it in 2017 has seen a factor of 1,000,000X improvement, on speed.
In the quarter century since then, supercomputers have vastly improved. The most powerful supercomputer on the first TOP500 list, the Fujitsu Numerical Wind Tunnel at Japan's National Aerospace Laboratory, topped the list with a peak performance of 124 gigaFLOPS. In comparison, the most powerful computer on the November 2017 list was the Sunway TaihuLight, which at 93 petaFLOPS is almost a million times faster.
A factor of 1,000,000 improvement shows the power of human ingenuity. Imagine if that happens in food production, the world would certainly be better.