You actually think that anyone except the major records companies and maybe the artists on the Billboard Top 100 make any money off CD sales (assuming they have a major label)? Hah.
If there's a well known time traveler convention being held in 2005 AD, why would we have to wait 1000 years for someone to go show up? I mean if you believe in all this "time travel" stuff, there is no present, past or future - there is only the time line you yourself are a part of. If "time travel" was real, this is not the first convention. In fact, in this line of thinking, there have already been tens of thousands of conventions.
I think diamonds will replace silicon before we manage to figure out how to bridge the quantum computing gap.
Diamonds have the highest conductivity rate of any known metal, which makes them perfect candidates for traditional computing. You may think "oh, but they're so expensive," but this isn't necessarily true. Natural diamonds are expensive, but this isn't due to its scarcity.
There are stockpiles of diamonds, but De Beers who controls 70% of the diamond industry wouldn't tell you that. They have found ways to keep these things in their hands and distribute them miserly, thus creating artifical rarity which raises the demand and price in one shot and leads to more profits.
The most important development, however, is the newfound possibility of manufacturing artificial diamonds. Ones with NO defects whatsoever. It's already possible, and it's been done. It's rather cheap as well.
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You actually think that anyone except the major records companies and maybe the artists on the Billboard Top 100 make any money off CD sales (assuming they have a major label)? Hah.
If there's a well known time traveler convention being held in 2005 AD, why would we have to wait 1000 years for someone to go show up? I mean if you believe in all this "time travel" stuff, there is no present, past or future - there is only the time line you yourself are a part of. If "time travel" was real, this is not the first convention. In fact, in this line of thinking, there have already been tens of thousands of conventions.
I think diamonds will replace silicon before we manage to figure out how to bridge the quantum computing gap.
Diamonds have the highest conductivity rate of any known metal, which makes them perfect candidates for traditional computing. You may think "oh, but they're so expensive," but this isn't necessarily true. Natural diamonds are expensive, but this isn't due to its scarcity.
There are stockpiles of diamonds, but De Beers who controls 70% of the diamond industry wouldn't tell you that. They have found ways to keep these things in their hands and distribute them miserly, thus creating artifical rarity which raises the demand and price in one shot and leads to more profits.
The most important development, however, is the newfound possibility of manufacturing artificial diamonds. Ones with NO defects whatsoever. It's already possible, and it's been done. It's rather cheap as well.