We pegged Deep Blue at about a lizard brain. That article is about a year old - I saw an interview with IBM staff more recently, and the timeline has shortened. Now see what happens. They always say this about every new technology. We'd suffer the same fate as the computer mouse.
Smarts is a hell of alot more than processing data.
You might be right if science and technology stood still. Fortunately they don't. Unless you put a chip in its head, I'll bet its not the mouse. ASCI White can do in one second. We pegged Deep Blue at about a lizard brain.