Computers of the future?

[taranaki]

Originally posted by YogsVR4


Mr. T I dont think its a bad thing bringing up an interesting topic that many of our members may not have seen.

Agreed,but his idea is fantasy and has already been posted before.I thought that this board was supposed to be a little bit deeper than that.

[speediva]

Whitey poses a very lame, but possible 'Big Brother' idea...

I personally think that faster isn't necessarily better... Sure it's nice, but we as humans can only go so quickly. Having computers that are x^nth power faster than our brains can even compute information is useless b/c we can't use the info until we've thought of what to do next.

I think reforms are more in the works of improving data storage and such as opposed to speeding things up. I don't know... I'm not in a thinking mood anymore. I'll probably post back later.

[Steel]

nono, i think you miss the point tangie, it IS good to have computers that are n^th power faster then our brains (they already are enyway) because they can proccess MONSTROUS amounts of data quickly. I mean, take todays typical cimputer, 1.2 gigs, lets say 512 megs of ram,20 gigs of HD space (im just pulling these outta my ass cause i have an ooooonld computer) and yet this computer STILL takes 10 minutes to prccess a complicated 3d boolean CAD image. Engineers want the computer to be able to crunch the numbers almost instantly, and get the image right away. you see what i mean? Its not a question of what could we think of for these blindingly fast comptuers to do, its to put them to work at their full capacity. a supercomputer used to track the pattern of the universe probably wouldnt be too good for your own use tangie, casue you'll be barely tapping its recourses, sorta like grampy's driving the big V8 boats around. But for tracking the pattern of the universe, the computer is working at 100%, you know what i mean?


I think i lost myself

[speediva]

My point wasn't in that kind of speed... not calculating speed, but rather speed of operations, I guess you'd call it...

I mean, we can only think so fast as to what we want the computer to do... having them go any faster would mean they'd have to do what we wanted before we knew we wanted it.

I don't know... I'm sleepy. Goodnight.