The future of the computers

[shady]

Which hights computers will reach in the next 5 years? I mean the speed of CPU, quality of games, etc. Virtual reality??

[rh71]

Your home refrigerator will be the CPU of your entire house.

Pervasive computing.

Some pretty wacked stuff is heading our way...

[shady]

i know what you mean I already saw a refrigirator with internet access

[steves1728]

The idea is they can email tech support when they need service but you'll still have to throw the food away...
Since you asked I'll leave this link
http://www.byte.com/column/monitor/BYT20000920S0004
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written by Fred Langa

[TechJumper]

You already know what I think-

VOICE RECOGNITION!

We will yell down the hall to our bathtub, "not too hot, you know what I mean!If you make it to got I'll dip your electronics in magnetized rain water!!!"

Seriously- (how can I be serious) the 1 Ghz mark will be a meaningless milestone in 5 years. Flash memory technology will replace current memory standards, and voice recognition will be our keyboard. I see a future when we simply think what we want. They already have a name for it neuronetworking, or the integration of the human mind and a computer. Its happening.


Best,

TechJumper
Michael Morelli

[shady]

ok besides internet powered refrigirators and antivirus medicine cabinets......how fast you think computers will get?? The realism of graphics, quality of sound, speed of internet, c'mon guys where are all your bright ideas??

[shady]

sorry techjumper i was wrighting my last post while you have posted yours, but neuronetworking very interests me, can you give a link?

[TechJumper]

well, I had one-

look for National Cash Register, the site is http://www.ncr.com and somewhere in there is a story on how they are endorsing this futuristic technology. I'll look as well. Post it if you find it.

Mike

[welsh wizard]

If its any help I remember reading on the BBC.co.uk site about these links and some Prof who is working on them, his main idea behind it was to develop a system that would allow Quadriplegics to walk again, great advancement for the handicapped if he cracks it soon.
WW

[voogru]

Ok i got a timeline going!

1995 they just came out with the 100Mhz Machines

2000 They just came out with 1GHz machines

2005 There gonna come out with 10Ghz Machines

2010 There gonna come out with 100Ghz Machines

2015 There gonna comp out with 1Thz Machines

2020 There gonna come out with 10Thz
Machines

2025 There gonna come out with 100Thz Machines

2030 There gonna come out with 1000Thz
Machines

There Thats 30 Years!

-voogru



[This message has been edited by voogru (edited 11-05-2000).]

[Solidus]

I think the real question is what will happen in about 50 years. Think about it,50 years ago computers where inconcievable. What technologies will be possible in th next 50 years? I think that once solar power or any othr more efficient type of fuel is put into common use, the future will be limitless. One of the main reasons why space exploration is going so slowly is because of the high cost of fuel. That is also why plane tickets are so expensive. If we can make some sort of high capacity energy cells that are recharged by solar energy, or eventually powered by anti-matter, taking a plane will be almost as cheap as driving. Taking a space vehicle, for that matter, will be as cheap as flying on a plane. I think, as the great thinkers of the 20th century thought, the future of mankind is in space. Earth can only hold us for about a century or less.

[TechJumper]

I agree- space exploration has always been an interest of mine, and I think that is where our future is. Like an old toy, Earth will get boring, so we will venture out, into the darkness and emptiness of space, making trips on the scale of light years, not miles. In order for us to do that we would have to overcome a few things. We would not be able to run the thing on fuel. Another thing, there would have to be some method of communication that would take less than 50 earth years to recieve. We would have to suppliment oxygen for something else readily availible in the universe, for we will run out of oxygen. We will also have to overcome age. There must be a way ( my belief is through water vapor) that we can slow the ultraviolent rays from affecting us. Through the improvement of artificial organs, things of that sort.

What do you think, far fetched, or far out?


Michael
TechJumper

[shady]

voogru how fast do you think 1000THz processors will run (I mean processing applications? And if today's Athlons 1Ghz require close to extreme cooling, do you think we will have a a refrigirator that is capable of dropping the temp. down to absolute zero on its own, just to make new Thz processors run at 30Cidle? Now what about graphic quality, how does new vid cards sound? With 5Tb (terabytes) of video RAM to produce literally life like graphics with life people going around just like in 13th floor (the movie), and 50X AGP QDR quadrupal data rate? I think we are over are heads

[crockett]

well here is something to think about..I'm sure internet speeds will go up...but so will the size of the info we are trying to send....so I think it will all balance out..I mean there may come a time that the average home ISP can D/L 100mbs in 5mins but by then the programs will probably be much larger than they are now..lets say 1,000mbs.

I'm not a tech head but I see it happening with games right now.. the average game used to be under 100mbs...now they are over 300mbs.I'm talking compressed as a example.

so like I say I'm sure the speeds will improve but the packet size will also increase.This will probably hold true to CPU's as well they may get faster but they will also be asked to do much more than they do now.

[wyvrn]

The house of the future will use Fiber Optics for telephones, internet access, television, and any other information sharing appliance. Many telcos are already laying the fiber that will be the information backbone in the next 5-10 years. This should lower costs of service as they are integrated to one bill (I hope) and the companies share the costs of equipment. Wireless appliances will take the place of computers, as far as organizers, email, and word processing is concerned. The desktop computer will eventually become the center of the electronic household. One chip will run everything in the house, from climate control to internet access to radio to controlling your lights. The processors we have now could handle this already, it is just a matter of different companies willing to take our existing technologies and work together to make technology more seamless.

edit: This would be a good brainstorming thread.

[This message has been edited by wyvrn (edited 11-06-2000).]

[shady]

you are right, for a game that produces LIFE graphics I bet there would be a need at least for a THz or 500MB of RAM. But besides that can you imagine cooling THz processors?

[KAknight]

I estimate that we only have about 30 years or so till we are ruled by **** DIRTY APES! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

So this whole topic is a moot question anyway.

[shady]

DIRTY APES classified as AI machines that will take over human kind like in matrix? http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif