Parallel Processing: "There are machines that exhibit a crude sort of memory... it seems reasonable that they can be developed to display a certain amount of judgment, according to a predetermined pattern" (Furnas, 1936). The ability of the computer to process serial (or sequential) data far outstrips the serial processing capability of the human brain. The computer is strictly a processing tool incapable, as yet, of the thought processes that characterize the human brain. On the other hand, in terms of the information glut that threatens to disrupt rather than enhance decision processes, the computer may mimic the brain more closely than we would hope, since "... the more information you give the computer, the slower it gets. So it's a kind of paradoxical situation; if you try to make it smarter by giving it more information, you're making it stupider by making it slower" (Danny Hillis: Brand, 1988). Parallel processing offers an alternative to the way that computers currently process information (serially), and this computational strategy more closely emulates the way the human brain functions. Parallel processing also enhances the computer's speed advantage by applying the computing power of numerous processors (simultaneously and in concert) to a single task. Reduced instruction set computers (RISC) have recently been developed to support parallel processing. However, the RISC CPU's by themselves are not able to simulate the complex associative thought patterns and processes of the brain. Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Technological Developments Superconductors Neural Networks Expert Systems (Neural)