I can remember, what 20, no, 30 years ago, when the Connection Machine was going to be the harbinger of a new class of computers. We were all going to have to learn to deal with massively parallel programming.

And then I never heard of it again until years later this (http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-and-connection-mac...) article about Richard Feynman popped up on the internet.

I still don't know why the CM never went anywhere. Inertia, scaling limitations, grabbed by the spooks and now only used by NSA for reading my email?