Where will CPUs and GPUs be in 400 years?

[Pkeg]

I have enough old Popular Science magazines from the 80's to know that "predicting" anything on this level is pure fantasy

 

[Zorander]

They'll be gone the same way whatever we used to use 400 years ago did.

We likely won't be using anything called called Processing Units by then. That would be so dinosaur.

 

[Idontcare]

The future is fusion.

It is pretty clear from the early successes we see today in people augmenting their bodies with technology (google glass, mind-controlled prosthetics, exoskeletons, retinal-implants, etc) to either over-come existing disabilities such as blindness or missing limbs or damaged nerves, the future of mankind and our computing devices is most certainly going to be a cyborg type future.

The real explosion in mankind's future with technology will come when they figure out how to use a technology interface to push knowledge (learning) directly into the brain passive to the consciousness of the person.

The movie The Matrix of course epitomized this, learning how to pilot a helicopter on the fly and so on, but it isn't inconceivable to suppose humans will figure out enough about the physiology of our brains to such a degree over the next 200-400 yrs as to develop whatever technology interface is needed such that it becomes a possible reality.

 

[crashtech]

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.

 

[Idontcare]

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.

Too bad I'll miss it, bummer

 

[jaqie]

I personally believe things will be much more like the ghost in the shell SAC series-es.

 

[Haserath]

Scientists will model the Big Bang and try to figure out the entire map of our universe simply with technology. They will need the map to approximate coordinates for warp travel.

They will create sentient beings inside the computer model that won't be able to figure out that they're actually just an AI themselves. They'll probably start believing in a parent being that is protecting and guiding them.

This universe isn't simulated in real time. It will be within a lifetime(at the time near 2000 years old if not extended indefinitely) to model the birth and death of the universe. The beings inside experiencing it like it was Billions of years.

The scientist? A human-made android, well... It was designed by human-made androids.

Humans are no longer around. Not because of the androids, oh no; they were actually very peaceful and kind beings thanks to their programmers. Science can be a double-edge sword sometimes. They had created a virus that doomed mankind. In fact, it doomed every living animal on the Blue Planet.

The computers shall carry on the story. Droid #37789 signing out.

Just a guess.

 

[denfenn1]

I hate to be a pessimist but human civilization will be destroyed several times in multiple world wars over the next several hundred years. In 400 years the 486DX and ISA bus will be "bleeding edge".

 

[Torn Mind]

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.

Eyeglasses are about 800 years old.

 

[StinkyPinky]

We can barely predict 10 years and you want 400 years?!

I'm more interested in what the internet will look like it 400 years. Will they still be reading our posts from 400 years ago? That would be awesome reading your great great great great great great great grandfather thoughts on pornography at the time (let's face it, 90% of internet talk is about porn)

 

[spat55]

When I saw this I thought of crysis lol. But I don't know I think we will be dead by then. Not just me but the entire human race.

 

[Maximilian]

4770k equivalent in 400 years --^

 

[KingFatty]

Past civilizations have risen and fallen, but humans are still around, and they kept some of the technologies too.

So I wonder if we can plunge back into a dark ages type of scenario. But even if we did, could we somehow store the knowledge we had?

In the past, you could burn the library of Alexandria and destroy stored human knowledge/progress. But it's hard to burn a sundial, or sextant, or compass, or whatever other technologies that kept our human knowledge/progress.

If we faced some bad event, like super ultra double-plus world war XXX, I would think there could be people that hoped for the future, and took steps to preserve human knowledge, put it somewhere safe.

I mean technically we stored a bit of human ingenuity and explanation/knowledge on the Voyager spacecraft safely tucked away on the outside of our solar system. I mean that's a pretty good offsite storage if you ask me!

So someone could just create a safe room on earth, or even on the moon, I mean a guy like Elon Musk with his own spaceship company, he could be like yeah put a thing on the moon for safekeeping or whatever.

 

[d3m]

Dark ages eeee???

Fist of the North Star. xD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_ZeD40Rg8A

 

[joshhedge]

I'm pretty sure humans will be rack-mounted in human data centres with the equivalent
of a power cable going into our mouths and cooling (aka waste disposal) at the rear, serving our robot masters for all of their computational needs.

 

[imaheadcase]

The Singularity is coming.

Humans and computers will merge.

 

[Smartazz]

It depends if smarter than human artificial intelligence wants us around. I don't think AI will take anywhere near 400 years to develop though.

 

[monkeydelmagico]

CPU's and GPU's will be inside us. Nanobots will use hydrogen atoms within our cells to provide molecular calculation. External visual display will not be needed as nanobots piggybacking on the optic nerve will be able to provide display feed.

As for the gloom and doomers we will have spread ourselves around the solar system and be on our way to galactic travel. I really hope so anyways. Sure would be a shame for all this human awesomeness to go to dust because some nut job decides to engineer a zombie apocalypse.

 

[aigomorla]

http://youtu.be/hShY6xZWVGE

^ nuff said... scotty shows us...

 

[T101]

"My mind is going.....dave. I can feel it."

 

[Idontcare]

I'm pretty sure humans will be rack-mounted in human data centres with the equivalent
of a power cable going into our mouths and cooling (aka waste disposal) at the rear, serving our robot masters for all of their computational needs.

Oh you, that is so 23rd century, so quaint.

Don't you know human-rackmount technology advanced to the "Human Centipede" stage by mid 24th century?

Cooling problem? What cooling problem?

 

[cytg111]

For one (okay, another), I hope we have CPU's running on Mars and Europa (the moon mkaythxbye?)

 

[Torn Mind]

Past civilizations have risen and fallen, but humans are still around, and they kept some of the technologies too.

So I wonder if we can plunge back into a dark ages type of scenario. But even if we did, could we somehow store the knowledge we had?

In the past, you could burn the library of Alexandria and destroy stored human knowledge/progress. But it's hard to burn a sundial, or sextant, or compass, or whatever other technologies that kept our human knowledge/progress.

If we faced some bad event, like super ultra double-plus world war XXX, I would think there could be people that hoped for the future, and took steps to preserve human knowledge, put it somewhere safe.

I mean technically we stored a bit of human ingenuity and explanation/knowledge on the Voyager spacecraft safely tucked away on the outside of our solar system. I mean that's a pretty good offsite storage if you ask me!

So someone could just create a safe room on earth, or even on the moon, I mean a guy like Elon Musk with his own spaceship company, he could be like yeah put a thing on the moon for safekeeping or whatever.

You don't need to burn them. Simply misplacing documents or destroying a building is enough to eliminate pieces of history. A lot of Mozart's manuscripts have been deemed lost since WWII, most likely destroyed. Basically, you can try to store information, but the ways it can become inaccessible are plentiful and easy to achieve. Many films of the silent era are gone, thrown away as regular trash and some barely escaped their fate. Johann Sebastian Bach owes a lot to his friend Johann Peter Kellner in preserving many of his works that otherwise would have been lost.

Information stored in scientific journals can be lost just as easily. Paper storage can be destroyed in numerous ways. Hard drive storage and similar requires electricity, a safe storage area, constant maintenance, and periodic refreshing. Storing knowledge off-planet is useless if you don't have a way to get that information back. Getting into space involved much money, and those didn't come out of thin air.

 

[Staples]

I doubt humans will be here in 400 years.

 

[Blitzvogel]

Things are kind of "slowing down" on the hardware side of things unless someone makes a real breakthrough in the construction and manufacture of nanomachines. At least we can hope for EMP weapons to take out any rebellious machines if it comes down to it.