I doubt that will happen for quite some time, and it probably won't last long. Even if the processor market stalls for a little while because of the limitations imposed by the nature of silicon, there are plenty of alternatives to turn to that are being worked on now. These include biological, DNA-based processors, quantum computers--which are frighteningly fast, as a mere 80 entangled "qubits" has about 2.37 trillion times the power of a render farm--and optical circuits.
It's not likely that we'll see any of this tech in the near future, but eventually we will have to dump our beloved Element 14, and when that happens, one of these technologies might become the new silicon.
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Ahhh, you see--some problems with having autonomous vehicles carrying people around would be inherent in the nature of technology, such as unreliability (god forbid Microsoft ever makes), conflicts in different OSes (i.e. your Civic's OS doesn't like the system that tollbooth coming up is using, and you're not allowed through because of handshake and/or packet errors), and if some script kiddie decides to go and fuck up the whole traffic grid...
Not, of course, that the roads would be any less hazardous then they are now, because, even with those flaws, one would probably be safer--at least statistically--than we are now. Either way, driving (or lack thereof) will probably always have some risk related to it.
As a last note, I would like to apologize in advance if this post is redundant, as I don't have the patience to read through, let me see... Ah, yes, 696 comments at the time of posting to check.
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I doubt that will happen for quite some time, and it probably won't last long. Even if the processor market stalls for a little while because of the limitations imposed by the nature of silicon, there are plenty of alternatives to turn to that are being worked on now. These include biological, DNA-based processors, quantum computers--which are frighteningly fast, as a mere 80 entangled "qubits" has about 2.37 trillion times the power of a render farm--and optical circuits.
It's not likely that we'll see any of this tech in the near future, but eventually we will have to dump our beloved Element 14, and when that happens, one of these technologies might become the new silicon.
Nonono.... Thunderbird.
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Ahhh, you see--some problems with having autonomous vehicles carrying people around would be inherent in the nature of technology, such as unreliability (god forbid Microsoft ever makes), conflicts in different OSes (i.e. your Civic's OS doesn't like the system that tollbooth coming up is using, and you're not allowed through because of handshake and/or packet errors), and if some script kiddie decides to go and fuck up the whole traffic grid... Not, of course, that the roads would be any less hazardous then they are now, because, even with those flaws, one would probably be safer--at least statistically--than we are now. Either way, driving (or lack thereof) will probably always have some risk related to it. As a last note, I would like to apologize in advance if this post is redundant, as I don't have the patience to read through, let me see... Ah, yes, 696 comments at the time of posting to check.