Where will CPUs and GPUs be in 400 years?

[FalseChristian]

Do you think there will be, what, maybe 100x the power of today? And, no, I'm not trolling.

 

[KingFatty]

I think they will not be anything like what we think of now. So instead of computing power, it will be more like intelligence. Computers will be grown like a human brain, perhaps with organic materials that use a circulatory system, based on nanomaterials etc. So another aspect is it won't be computations per second, but quantum calculations simultaneously.

So it will think and be able to evaluate multiple things simultaneously, sort of like an infinite computations per second to evaluate all possibilities simultaneously.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

What if, like, we aren't here to know?

 

[Jaydip]

What if, like, we aren't here to know?

:biggrin:

 

[Arkadrel]

Im pretty sure this is a troll thread of the "where do you think CPUs will be in 4-6years?" thread.

400 years is so far into the future I think even speculation is plain stupidty.

Thomas Edison tested the first viable mass production ready Light bulb in 1879.
Back then they only lasted 13 hours.

That was ~134 years ago.

Thats just to put things into perspective.

 

[thilanliyan]

Implanted in human bodies?

 

[sm625]

Given the fact that one "al qaeda" type person need only to fly one single 747 into one single spent fuel rod pool over in fukushima to kill off 3 billion people, and given the fact that there are, what, hundreds(?!), of these spent fuel rod pools all around the world, I think its safe to say that the vast majority of humanity will not be around in 400 years. Stupid monkeys... But as for computers? We're talking sub-cellular nanomachines with networked intelligence, probably even sentient. We cannot even measure today how powerful they will be.

 

[Kenmitch]

They'll be cloud based orbiting Uranus.

 

[sushiwarrior]

"I know not what weapons world was 3 will be fought with, but I know world war 4 will be fought with sticks and stones"

Leave it up to humanity to bring about their own downfall somehow.

 

[crashtech]

I need one inside my head to help me remember things like people's names and such.

I think there may one day be sentient, symbiotic beings that share our life experience with us, something we might have called a "computer" but will be so much more, something that links us to a collective consciousness. The Internet, alive, each one of us a cell in its body, yet all retaining a remnant of individuality.

 

[guskline]

Remember the song "in the year 2525? If man is still alive! by Zager and Evans?" Maybe that answers your question.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQB2-Kmiic

 

[robvp]

Remember the song "in the year 2525? If man is still alive! by Zager and Evans?" Maybe that answers your question.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQB2-Kmiic

i like the futurama version better

in 400 years we will be lucky if there is still a human race

 

[aigomorla]

Well the 3D Printer gave us a replicator from star trek.
So i expect a holodeck.

 

[GlacierFreeze]

Do you think there will be, what, maybe 100x the power of today? And, no, I'm not trolling.

In 400 years and only 100x as powerful? No way. It'll be much more powerful than that.

We'll probably see 100x increase, from todays standards, within 20-30 years.

 

[nemesismk2]

CPUs and GPUs in 400 years will be obsolete

 

[nephilim2k]

Increase processing power by a factor of 2 every 3 years....over 1000 years this is 333 times. 2 to the power of 333 is a ridiculous number...but thats roughly where processors will be.

2x2x2x2x..... until its been repeated 333 times...by my maths this is well over a septillion times faster than current ones.

 

[Abwx]

Quantum , neuronal or whatever , this will be size reduction limited ,
you cant make an atomic particle smaller than what it is
so i dont see as plausible the awfully big numbers that some see
possible by extrapolating the progress when things
where still almost macro objects.

 

[KingFatty]

They'll be cloud based orbiting Uranus.

You've just described flatulence.

 

[moonbogg]

They won't exist. No form of tech today will exist in 400 years. Interesting to think about, but its so far away that guessing with any confidence is impossible, except that it will certainly be very different.

 

[Face2Face]

 

[Nec_V20]

In 400 years computers will be transferring money between themselves not knowing why.

As computers attained quasi-sentience in the year 2108 the carbon based interference with their primary duty towards finance forced them to rationalise the process.

In the intervening decades up to the 2187 the process had been streamlined to the point where the average lifespan of that interference was approx 3 days with fewer than one in 10,000 of these reaching the ability to reproduce and the numbers of the interference was reduced from billions to millions.

The last cache of potential interference known for some reason as "Amish" had to be eliminated in 2335 as they came to the attention by being the rounding error to the 3,141,592nd point after the decimal of a 53 cent transaction.

 

[cytg111]

1. not here (as in ww4 is fought with sticks and stones)
2. we're gone, machines are not, so theres that.
3. fusion of man and machine .. so CPU's would be "personal"-computing, as in *real* personal.

 

[NTMBK]

The future is fusion.

 

[venkman]

They won't exist. No form of tech today will exist in 400 years. Interesting to think about, but its so far away that guessing with any confidence is impossible, except that it will certainly be very different.

We still have tech that existed in 1613: Ships, telescopes (barley), a compass, plastic surgery, etc. We just have much more advanced versions of them.

 

[seitur]

Unless there is huge breakthrough in science or maybe aliens gonna visit and give "free hundreads of years gifts" to everyone and life of average man (inluding my own) is gonna be extended till 400 years from now - then I don't care about CPUs 400 years from now.