Where will CPUs and GPUs be in 400 years?

[cytg111]

...At least we can hope for EMP weapons to take out any rebellious machines if it comes down to it.

Too much matrix for me to not hope for it come true. Most epic movie ever (2nd and 3rd never existed..)

 

[Matt1970]

In 2015 we better have floating skateboards and be able to control the weather.

 

[Idontcare]

In 2015 we better have floating skateboards and be able to control the weather.

Jump off a cliff while standing on a skateboard, and then fart...you can accomplish both right here and now in 2013

 

[Charles Kozierok]

Here's what predictions are worth in the world of computing:

"Engineers and mathematicians are like airplane designers. Models in use are already long outmoded by those on the drawing boards. Where a calculator like the ENIAC today is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh only 1 1/2 tons."

-- Andrew Hamilton, Popular Mechanics, 1949

 

[seitur]

My calculator is only 500 kg!

 

[utmode]

Why its not a t?ll thread?
predicting 4 years ok; but not 400 years

 

[2is]

Hopefully we'll have Holodecks

 

[moonbogg]

It would seem like magic to us primitives, subtle, amazing, and absolutely impenetrable. Nevermind helicopters, our future selves could become giant supersonic birds with what would appear to be the force of our will alone.

That sounds awesome and very likely. I consider myself lucky to live during the transition period from a natural world to an enhanced and transformed world. I get to experience both whenever I want. I can look backward and forward in time and relate to a world with no technology as well as a world with nothing but technology. We are amongst the lucky few to experience life as unmodified humans, yet right on the edge of transformation so we can still look out and feel we are a part of it.

 

[Erenhardt]

The most advanced thing people will know after 400 year from now will be a device which is made out of rock fixed to the stick. Universal tool that fills all the needs of a caveman - the next gen human being (evolved after Atomic World War 2). Featuring 0.5 to 2 Hz frequency (depends on the speed of the wielder).

 

[jkauff]

I doubt humans will be here in 400 years.

So, what kind of computers will cockroaches be using in 400 years? :hmm:

 

[StinkyPinky]

That sounds awesome and very likely. I consider myself lucky to live during the transition period from a natural world to an enhanced and transformed world. I get to experience both whenever I want. I can look backward and forward in time and relate to a world with no technology as well as a world with nothing but technology. We are amongst the lucky few to experience life as unmodified humans, yet right on the edge of transformation so we can still look out and feel we are a part of it.

I dunno man. I wouldn't mind being born in 50 years and therefore having a good shot at life extension.

Everyone born today is destined for the ground pretty quickly, but possibly in 100 years people may have extended lifes lasting centuries.

 

[CRCSUX]

I cant imagine we would still be able to live on earth or possibly anywhere in 400 years.
Our guns are to big and fuses to small.

 

[Idontcare]

I dunno man. I wouldn't mind being born in 50 years and therefore having a good shot at life extension.

Everyone born today is destined for the ground pretty quickly, but possibly in 100 years people may have extended lifes lasting centuries.

As a species, it can be said that humans don't value anything that is in high supply.

Make life last longer and we value it all the less.

Obviously that isn't true of 100% of everyone, but look around. Give people all the modern amenities of an industrialized world and what do they do with it?

Do we really need to double peoples lives yet again, so we can have them spending even more unproductive years on facebook or playing angry birds or sitting in a nursing home being fed by people they don't even know?

I'm not saying lets go back to the 1800's, but I am saying people don't really seem to value their days when they get the opportunity to live to be 80YO now, what kind of daily morals and ethics reality (not too mention resource scarcity like food and water) is there going to be when people live an extra 20 or 30 years in retirement?

That is the future, no disagreement from me there, but personally I'm relieved to know I won't be party to it. When my time comes I'll step aside so a new generation of productive humans can occupy my space while I get recycled back into the food chain somewhere.