Future hardware???? here is a question for you.......
OK, i m bored reading 100 threads about if G5 will be released tomorrow, in one week, in 6 months or in one year....etc. 
Here is a serious question: :eek:
What will computers be able to do in 50 years from now? What kind of progress should we expect.... where is the technology heading???
What about AI ?[that is artificial inteligence not apple insider
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Bezbozny.
Here is a serious question: :eek:
What will computers be able to do in 50 years from now? What kind of progress should we expect.... where is the technology heading???
What about AI ?[that is artificial inteligence not apple insider
]Bezbozny.
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Within 20 years, personal computers will be just portable with wireless internet and very long battery life.
Within 40 years, perhaps some cyborgish stuff.
<strong>I expect personal Matrices as entertainment/gaming machines within 50 years.
Within 20 years, personal computers will be just portable with wireless internet and very long battery life.
Within 40 years, perhaps some cyborgish stuff.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Doctors have said that the cure for diabetes is only 5 years away for 2 decades.
Computers will be faster, thinner, and just as expensive. It's all relative.
We may have the technology to have cyborg stuff, id rather have that same technology in pretty box on my desk.
You can't implant a chip into a baby's brain at birth if the chips get twice as fast every 2 years.
That would create serious discrepancies between the generations, with the younger generations always being one step ahead, capable of doing more in less time with their "implants". It would end in a revolution, a bloody one.
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<strong>You can't implant a chip into a baby's brain at birth if the chips get twice as fast every 2 years.
That would create serious discrepancies between the generations, with the younger generations always being one step ahead, capable of doing more in less time with their "implants". It would end in a revolution, a bloody one.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Unless there's a simple, straight-forward upgrade plan.
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Doctors have said that the cure for diabetes is only 5 years away for 2 decades.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yes, and physicists say that nuclear fusion powerplants are only 20 years away... since 1956.
Steven Hawking publicly stated recently that the Human race will become obsolete in the next 40 years.
By 2020, $1000 of computing power (in todays $) will exceed the computational capacity of the human brain. more than 10% of the total computational capacity of the human race (and it's machines) wil be machine.
By 2040, $1000 of computing power will exceed tha computational capacity of ALL THE HUMAN BRAINS in the word. over 99% of the total computational capacity of the human race will be machine.
Over the next 40 years human machine interaction will become more and more intimate, with bionic implants becoming commonplace, and even nessisary, and by 2040, a non bionically enhanced human will not be able to have a meaningfull relationship with bionicly enhance human.
If ANYONE here thinks this is crazy, open your eyes. :eek: Technology is increasing at an exponential rate and if we don't kill ourselves off, we will do 20,000 years of technological advancement in the next hundred.
READ : The Age of Spiritual Machines
<strong>The answer to this question has a lot of people worried.
Steven Hawking publicly stated recently that the Human race will become obsolete in the next 40 years.
By 2020, $1000 of computing power (in todays $) will exceed the computational capacity of the human brain. more than 10% of the total computational capacity of the human race (and it's machines) wil be machine.
By 2040, $1000 of computing power will exceed tha computational capacity of ALL THE HUMAN BRAINS in the word. over 99% of the total computational capacity of the human race will be machine.
Over the next 40 years human machine interaction will become more and more intimate, with bionic implants becoming commonplace, and even nessisary, and by 2040, a non bionically enhanced human will not be able to have a meaningfull relationship with bionicly enhance human.
If ANYONE here thinks this is crazy, open your eyes. :eek: Technology is increasing at an exponential rate and if we don't kill ourselves off, we will do 20,000 years of technological advancement in the next hundred.
READ : The Age of Spiritual Machines</strong><hr></blockquote>
I wish i could be frozen and wake up after 1000 years and see what technology will have accomplished..... <img src="graemlins/surprised.gif" border="0" alt="[Surprised]" /> [eventhough they would probably put me in a museum of some kind as a prehistoric speciment
Steven Hawking is a human just like you and me, he's not going to be 100% right all of the time.
I think we'll get to a point where entire computers will be so small they'll practically be invisible and everything you do will be computerized aside from your emotions and thoughts.
Imagine walking down the street and just saying "computer: where is the pizza parlor" and your shirt will project a map in front of your face that only you can see that will point you to the pizza parlor.
Hopefully Motorola won't be powering these computers or they'll still be under 2Ghz <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
<strong>The answer to this question has a lot of people worried.
Steven Hawking publicly stated recently that the Human race will become obsolete in the next 40 years.
By 2020, $1000 of computing power (in todays $) will exceed the computational capacity of the human brain. more than 10% of the total computational capacity of the human race (and it's machines) wil be machine.
By 2040, $1000 of computing power will exceed tha computational capacity of ALL THE HUMAN BRAINS in the word. over 99% of the total computational capacity of the human race will be machine.
Over the next 40 years human machine interaction will become more and more intimate, with bionic implants becoming commonplace, and even nessisary, and by 2040, a non bionically enhanced human will not be able to have a meaningfull relationship with bionicly enhance human.
If ANYONE here thinks this is crazy, open your eyes. :eek: Technology is increasing at an exponential rate and if we don't kill ourselves off, we will do 20,000 years of technological advancement in the next hundred.
READ : The Age of Spiritual Machines</strong><hr></blockquote>
As a programmer and someone that has followed technology for most of my life, I would say that yes, technology has and is progressing exponentially. Yet, to balance your picture out keep in mind that even with all the Apple vs. Wintel and Sparc stuff, the killer applications continue to be e-mail and chat. Mere, extensions of what we were already doing; making phone calls and postage mail.
Technology will continue to progress but in the end it will only serve in whatever capacity our aggregate needs dictate.
And that's nothing. TODAY:
FPGA chips can write themselves to solve simples problems
We've successfully conected neurons to IC's.
A 19 year old high school student has invented a working signlanguage-to-text glove.
I can have a meeting (had one this morning actually) with 30 people from all over the world.
My $1000 computer today can convert my speech into text on the fly.
Several people have become pregnant by their dead husbands.
Genetice screening of embryos is common practice.
This is only 30 odd years after the microchip was really starting to catch on. At this rate where will we be in 300 years? Scary thing is, we'll do 300 years in 15. Then 2000 years in the next 5. Then 10,000 years in the next 2....
If you think life is fast paced now.. just wait.
In the next 10 years we will will have pictures of oceans on other planets light years away, and won't be able to keep up with the numbers of new worlds discovered every day (we're already there today with jupiter class exoplanets)
There will be neo ludittes that shun technology, but will die off... something to do with a Darwin theory...and not the OS X kind..
Ultimatly, technology will gain control of it's own destiny. It could happen in 50 years, 20, or 500. But if we don't stray too much from our path we've been on for the last few hundred years, that's what WILL happen.
I think we'll figure out a way to do this without implants. I think that this will bring technology assisted telepathy (if you think it, and it's wirelessly transmitted to someone else, how is that different than telepathy).
I think gaming will become huge - artificial intelligence/advanced intelligence will assist in game development where you can basically use natural language development (talk/think to your computer, tell it what you want to create a game).
I think that the initial systems will be expensive, but eventually this will replace all major forms of entertainment (fully immersive gaming environments). Everyone will create/experience - that will be the major industry of the future.
Food, manufacturing, etc., will be taken care of by artificial intelligence.
The wristband/headband is the computer of the future. It's all you'll need (no wallet, no keys, no paper). It will be powered by thermal energy (ie off your body heat).
Just don't forget to log off and feed yourself once in a while... :-)
<strong>Biotech will always have one main barrier: Ethics
You can't implant a chip into a baby's brain at birth if the chips get twice as fast every 2 years.
That would create serious discrepancies between the generations, with the younger generations always being one step ahead, capable of doing more in less time with their "implants". It would end in a revolution, a bloody one.
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no, just implant a ZIF socket in every baby's brain at birth. duh!
<strong>I'm not talking about moores law here. That is becoming obsolete as well. IM and email have been prolific for what? 6 years at the most. Hell the Internet was born (as far as <a href="http://www.com)" target="_blank">http://www.com)</a> in 1994ish. That's 8 years. infantcy. What did a car look like in 1897ish? (8 years after Mercedes and Benz got together to build an autocarrige)
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I really hope that computers progress better than cars. Cars are over a hundred years old, but they're basically the same thing: four wheels, internal combustion motor and a place to sit. I mean, does rich Corithian leather really change the concept of a car?
However, I expect computers to follow much in the same way: transistors flipping on and off. That would be lame if that's all we had in 20 years.
I want organic/molecular/Framistan computers. I want my data stored in the probabilistic quantum state of an electron <a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/quantuminfo/teleportation/"; target="_blank">that's not even on my computer</a>.
I'm tired of hearing all of these technologies that are fine science experiments, but one that people can't play with.
That's why I became a freakin' engineer!
I want to put a down-payment on my <a href="http://apnews.excite.com/article/20020115/D7H1RLNG1.html"; target="_blank">flying car</a>. I want to create transparent aluminum on my Mac. Where are the <a href="http://www.crazyapplerumors.com/archives/2001_12_30_crazyapplerumor_archive.htm"; target="_blank">sexbots</a>!?
Sorry... sorry... too many Twix bars today... I'll cut back on the sugar.
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Steven Hawking publicly stated recently that the Human race will become obsolete in the next 40 years.
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Sorry, this is BS!!
No, I don't see The Borg style of evolution or the beginning of the Matrix. I think that society will evolve, something big, a huge discovery on human biology, will unite us all, we will build a telescope, that can see alien civilisation, and we will strive to build a bad ass pace ship, to go over and meet new life forms.
As for A.I, nah, it has been dicussed in Terinator, and seen as a bad thing.
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