But then again, if we can develop new technologies, then none of these problems will exist. We'll just have to wait to see.
]]> Anyway, I just think that that far in the future, given the accelerating curve of advances in technology, that by then we will have enough "hardware" to take care of most of the trivial aspects of existence. Thereby leaving us free to pursue more worthy tasks. Pipe-dream I guess.
The Greeks had it right, by using a slave workforce, but that is no longer acceptable. I doubt if many will feel bad for machines though. (You will of course have some left-wing kooks who will try to save the poor machines.)
With optical you can apply massive transformations of data, affecting many frequencies at once. It is parallel computing on steroids! It is going to be very interesting to see what develops in this field.
Moore's Law still has life left in it!
]]>Optical computing might also have potential as a silicon replacement, if they can succeed in trapping light on a small scale (yes, they've succeeded in trapping and storing a laser pulse for a time).
]]>I am not a computer guy at all and I know that some of you are a lot more into them. Aren't the limitations of silicon starting to peak over the horizon? I always believed that we would eventually be able to go to something with better transfer(?) rates like a fluid medium or something. Am I completely crazy thinking like that?
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