A $1000 computer with the equivalent knowledge of the whole human race won't happen because it is physically impossible. There are 10^11 neurons or so in the brain. There are 10^10 (say) people in the world (more like 0.5 X 10^10 but anyway). So loosely there is an order of 10^20 neurons in humans on earth total. Avogadro's number has approx. 6 * 10^23 atoms in 12 grams of carbon, so, basically, you'd have to have 1…
Also 10^11 neurons fit in roughly 0.001 cubic meters (i.e. a cube of 10cm), a thousand would fit in a cubic meter, your one brain simulation server room has space to a 100,000 actual human brains. Even if the simulation hardware occupies the same space as the human brain requires we would use only 0.01 cubic kilometers for the entire human race simulation. I have to agree that this will cost more than $1k, but is much smaller than your design.