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1975 is before my time, but to the best of my knowledge -- backed up with a quick Google -- computers of the time are recognisably similar to computers of today
by Xophmeister 12y ago
1975 is before my time, but to the best of my knowledge -- backed up with a quick Google -- computers of the time are recognisably similar to computers of today, obviously modulo technological advances. Whereas, if you were to go back a bit further (e.g., pre-silicon, etc.) then people, even experts, would probably find a modern machine somewhat mystical. Anyway, what if we turned things around: What would we think, today, of a computer owned by a time-traveller from 2055? Will there be another "quantum leap" -- possibly quite literally -- like ICs, that will make it an intractable wonder, or will it be basically recognisable?
- scaramanga 12y agoWell CPU's will be only a few orders of magnitude faster than they are now. Moore's law is ending. Quantum computers probably won't be any faster. I'd be hoping for interesting software :)
- restalis 12y agoI bet the software will start to resemble an actual engineering, not like our Moore's law era where the hardware capabilities expanded too fast and the software programmers got a lot of rope for too cheap of a price to value it properly! ...and that the number of cores in a processing unit being close to the number of neurons in a brain maybe?