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It's surreal when you take a step back for a second, like marathon runners at one of those drinking stands, and you take in how far we've come in the last 50, 3
by joshmlewis 13y ago
It's surreal when you take a step back for a second, like marathon runners at one of those drinking stands, and you take in how far we've come in the last 50, 30, and 15 years even. Then you have to think what's next because computers are getting skinnier and faster from the original design and we all know that eventually something else will take over. I wonder who will do it, what it will be like, and how it will change the world even more.
We aren't just going to stop once our laptops are paper thin and lightning fast (ha ha), so what will it be? The future is a vast frontier even today with how far we've come.
- vezzy-fnord 13y agoI probably just lack imagination, but I don't see the general model of a digital computer with a Harvard architecture going away for a very long time. Rather, our focuses will be on getting higher power and complexity on increasingly smaller sizes, while ubiquitously integrating them in virtually everything imaginable (in short: ubiquitous computing is the future). Although we likely will see huge world-changing advancements that will be taken for granted in the future, much like the integrated circuit is now, the concept of a computer as we know it today probably won't disappear.