Down here in the Slow Zone, half a mouse brain is about all we can expect.
We've almost reached the limit of silicon transistors. None of the new technologies on the horizon are particularly promising: optical computers still rely on silicon parts and have been going nowhere for years; quantum computers still struggle with decoherence with only a handful of qubits and no one knows how to program them anyway; and as for nano-scale diamond rod logic? Maybe when someone comes up with a universal assembler (not likely).
Of course I'm optimistic about computing technology in general, but with breakthroughs like this my optimism is getting a little strained. Someone prove me wrong here.
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Down here in the Slow Zone, half a mouse brain is about all we can expect.
We've almost reached the limit of silicon transistors. None of the new technologies on the horizon are particularly promising: optical computers still rely on silicon parts and have been going nowhere for years; quantum computers still struggle with decoherence with only a handful of qubits and no one knows how to program them anyway; and as for nano-scale diamond rod logic? Maybe when someone comes up with a universal assembler (not likely).
Of course I'm optimistic about computing technology in general, but with breakthroughs like this my optimism is getting a little strained. Someone prove me wrong here.