Future of the PC

[Colonel Travis]

So what's the computer going to be like in 100 years? Anyone got any cool futurist-kinda sites that talk about this stuff?

 

[smarteyeball]

Sorry, I don't have any sites but needless to say computers a 100 years from now will be like comparing our current high-end rigs to an abacus.

I'd love to see what they have in the future, but unfortunately we'll all be dead, so it's rather a moot point

 

[Captain Zero]

It's pretty tough to predict, although I'm certain that quantum computing and bio-storage will be readily available. Storing 1TB on a grain of salt, not a problem. Real time, faster than light computing? Hard to fathom but it's coming.

 

[Ballistyx]

In 100 years there saying the world is going to go into depression again because oil will run out and then we need to find a way to replace it..

But it would be good to see some good pictures

 

[Lordbob75]

In a hundred years?

Very good possibility that we will be experiencing the worlds first nuclear winter by then.........................................................

So probably not anything ridiculous.

As to quantum computing, well...... That is indeed coming, but not in 100 years. We know less than nothing about quantum mechanics, and quantum computing to us now is like trying to explain calculus to a newborn dog....

~Lordbob

 

[OEM]

100 years... a free clean glass of water would be nice.

Who knows, maybe we'll be implanted with them and it will be projected within our vision. No keyboards, mouse, monitors, nothing but our minds
...then again our minds are super computers anyway, so maybe we'll just learn to use them to there potential.

 

[Ballistyx]

i have heard there were some people building a computer that can you control the mouse by your thoughts

i wouldnt mind making that into same with writting.. just think it and it types..

hate it when you think one thing but yet type something else different

 

[Lordbob75]

i have heard there were some people building a computer that can you control the mouse by your thoughts

i wouldnt mind making that into same with writting.. just think it and it types..

hate it when you think one thing but yet type something else different

Yes they do have that. It plugs directly into your brain. But the technology is rudimentary at best: The guy testing it tried to draw a circle, and it looked about like a rectangle with a crazy side....

~Lordbob

 

[Ballistyx]

Yes they do have that. It plugs directly into your brain. But the technology is rudimentary at best: The guy testing it tried to draw a circle, and it looked about like a rectangle with a crazy side....

~Lordbob

They will get a break through one day with it and we will see it everywhere

 

[Lordbob75]

They will get a break through one day with it and we will see it everywhere

Well yeah, but thats 50 - 100 years MINIMUM.

~Lordbob

 

[Ballistyx]

So what's the computer going to be like in 100 years? Anyone got any cool futurist-kinda sites that talk about this stuff?

Still a break through

 

[Avien]

No site on me at the moment, but i have seen some holographic computers using a pen, that has the speed of a computer from last year. Might sound slow, but it is the size of a PEN and has a holographic monitor and keyboard.

 

[bhuulo]

No computers after 100 years... everything Chip based... Even PDAs will look like main frame computers....

 

[Captain Zero]

Googled this topic and came up with this gem;

"I predict that the computer will be absorbed into the body via modular cyborgery."

Uh, what? "Cyborgery"? Is that what he said..? Where do I sign up?!?

Moving on...

Provided we don't...:

- A; Blow ourselves up (MADD)
- B; Melt the poles and drown
- C; Aren't vaporized by Apophis
- D; Dodge all the rampant, genetically mutated viruses we're in for
- E; Collapse into chaos when Wal-Mart goes bankrupt

Implants will be prevelant in 100 years. Need to learn French for a hot date? Plug it in. Electrical Engineering for a new job? It'll cost you but the courseware is the best there is! I don't doubt it will be that easy and I'd be on that wagon as fast as possible.

Sadly, I won't live long enough to see it but I know it's coming. In the meantime, I'll just tinker with W7.

 

[jimbo45]

Never mind 100 years -- in a few years from now human bodies will have evolved so our ears will become built in Ipods and mobile phones and be able to project text to our brains so we won't need email or music players any more.

Internet can also be accessed directly using a "Bio Net" so we would also have instant access to Google etc.

That's probably covered over 70% of the entire applications most people run on computers anyway.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[Orbital Shark]

I like the minority report idea, control your PC, Laptop & Telly with finger/hand gestures without even touching them.


The Nintendo Wii controler has already been tested under some of these scenarios

nice little read Here

Just imagine what 100 years will bring

 

[Avien]

Well didn't Microsoft just come out with a new way to play games? It uses a camera and detects your motions and then uses that to move the pointer/game. There is a video somewhere showing a guy using the system to play a boxing game.


http://neocrisis.com/content/view/3916/1/

 

[bhuulo]

Well didn't Microsoft just come out with a new way to play games? It uses a camera and detects your motions and then uses that to move the pointer/game. There is a video somewhere showing a guy using the system to play a boxing game.


http://neocrisis.com/content/view/3916/1/

it is touch less technology...

 

[Ballistyx]

Well didn't Microsoft just come out with a new way to play games? It uses a camera and detects your motions and then uses that to move the pointer/game. There is a video somewhere showing a guy using the system to play a boxing game.


Neocrisis - What will you find next? - Microsoft Fluid Prototype In Action

i want that now lol looks awesome

 

[Avien]

Would be cool to see if they ever get that to work for FPS games.