10 Years From Now
Let us change the subject in here and really get into a good subject that I think we all will enjoy. What I want to know is what do you think or believe that computers and the internet is going to be like in 10 years. See you in 5 days.
10 years older?
17 USC § 1008 Prohibition on certain infringement actions:
No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the noncommercial use by a consumer for making digital musical or analog musical recordings.
well if my math is right, in 1999 we had 500mhz,, 2001 1000mhz 2004, 3000-4000 mhz at this growing rate in 10 years we will probally have 40,000 mhz--- 60,000mhz---- also I been drinking so my math my not be right
and they will still be too slow for the next buggy release of windows.Originally Posted by Undying WIzard NHD
The game industry will dominate the movie industry, or holodecks well get invented :)
It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
-Rami Belson
The speed of computers has been pretty much doubling every year for the last ten years. If the trend continues, computers will be about 1000 times faster in 10 years than they are now. This doesn't mean we'll have processors running at 3000Ghz - it's already getting difficult for processor designers to increase the clock speed - but we're likely to see massive parallel processing and other techniques that'll make computers much faster than they are today.
Well who knows according to Moore's law yes computers will be running at 3000GHZ.
But it's true i think distributed computing, (processor) renting will be available on demand.
Lately, to me anyway, it seems the CPU speeds have leveled off alot. The main focus has been RAM speed. They focus more on the "hyper threading" and whatever AMD is calling it.
Hard as ever and here to make you people believe...as long as there is one person to hold hope and dream...A GOD...will never die!
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Would that be 1024 times to be right, 2^10. I hope DRM is dead way before then, holo deak would be in and we could ask a computer to make us something to eat and clean up.
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Just for fun, I will take the opposite view.
In the next 5 years we will have a global depression, repressive laws and the few high tech jobs will be replaced by humanoid robots.
New technology will advance at an ever increasing rate, while the people that hold access to the technology will only distribute the technology to those who can pay the most money to access it.
We will be closer to nanotech, understanding how biological systems age and decay, but our social systems will be in chaos as technology and people do not see the big picture of making society work for everyone in it, not just the select few that have friends and family in the corporate lifestyle and access to wealth.
In about 10 years people will wake up and demand massive reforms.
The question is, is it too late?
Is it not a feat sublime? Intellect hath conquered time.
Interesting prediction, I wasn’t going to check this until I got back from my trip and lucky me I came across this post. I got to hand it to you; you blew me away with that speech. You know what? I am totally speechless and I am defiantly leaving this one alone.
don't forget about walt disney's head being brought out of cryogenic freezing and back to life. maaaannnnn is he gonna be pissed!!!
nothing to see here
Intel has already come up with a new process of making processors that they hope in the next 2 years will be able to bring processor speeds up to 10Ghz
Why leave it alone? Debate is fun.
If you like that, you might like the national peer to peer radio show. One of the shows was on what if intelectual property fails. You might like it. You can download it free from the site or on emule/edonkey link.
Is it not a feat sublime? Intellect hath conquered time.
Long post, very insightful, slightly paranoid.
I think that in 10 years the computer as we know it will have been replaced by TVs with internet and harddrives, cell phones with planners, video chat and messengers, and wireless syncing for all of this. People will not know/care that they are being snooped on by the government, who, under the partiot act, will have mandates that all electronics companies create them backdoors for wiretapping.
Desktops will be a niche market used by programmers, the nostalgic, and the "paranoid". America will begin censoring it's internet due to public outcry against spam, child porn, and other issues. There will of couse, be some type of split off the internet, perhaps an open source protocol for information exchange that is used by a few techs who don't wish to be a part of the grand, censored and tapped scheme. Filesharing will be dead, but the music industry will have finally sorted things out, one way or another, making everyone (who doesn't want free music) happy. They won't have to worry about the russian sites because the government, at their request, will have blocked the sites; Nobody will be able to proxy through to them because the government will also assign everyone a static IP for tracking purposes. Almost all independent ISPs will have been bankrupt by the impossible costs that the proprietary backdoor software demands, and the few left (AOL, earthlink, etc.) will all be compliant, if for nothing else fear of being forcibly closed.
As society relies more and more on technology and cheap methods of communications, people will come to be like they were in Fahrenheit 451, they will be happy, because they are ignorant. The next generation (babies born circa 1998) will have no concept of privacy, because they will have grown up in an insecure society, and will have no concept of a face-to-face conversation; anything not seen through the phone's camera or the webcam will be akward and short-lived.
The version of windows following blackcomb will be even more invasive, not only requiring a proprietary chipset and BIOS, but a fingerprint authenticiation system which stores your fingerprint in a microsoft-owned, government-accessible database, and also logs your keystrokes and keeps a history of all of your activiy, on both a local, and server-cached copy. The operating system will block all "unapproved" software, such as for use for filesharing, keygens, cracks, etc.... all non-DRMS music will refuse to play, and for "security reasons" windows media player will be the only media player available to Windows users.
Apple will no longer sell desktop computers, and will have moved totally into the music industry. They will open stores that sell music with their own brand of DRM that they have stricken a deal with MS to get to play in windows media player.
Linux will still be a viable OS choice, used by about the same percent of users as it is now. Undoubtedly the proprietary Wintel motherboard will have been hacked so Linux will run smoothly on it, but you run the risk of being arrested, as Linux is strictly illegal because it does not report back non-anonymous usage reports (although some commerical brands of linux will have sold out and will due just that).
The world will be a cheap place where people rely merely on sex, alchohol and rave-drugs for excitement, bringing their camera/video recorder phone/doohickeys with them so they can chronicle their adventures on the internet, where everybody will have a webpage or blog, because it's yet another means of communication that avoids direct human interaction.
I know it sounds like the matrix, and my suggestions are probably another 30-40 years off but I believe that something like this will happen. I feel very strongly about the way that technology and tech legislation are going, and I think it's the wrong way. Mark my words, you should be afraid for your children. Barring a total collapse of our communications infrastructure, the world ain't getting any more private/safer/conservative/what have you, and this will happen someday.
Maybe one good thing will come out of this: you will be able to legally play DVDs on the (legal) versions of linux.
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