it's mind boggling...

[rahimiv]

Imagine that just 20 years ago, the computers that we have now were considered Supercomputers back then (I dont even think they had a 1.7 GHz supercomps, I think it ran like 200 Mhz) and today we literally have supercomputers at our fingertip and supercomputers are like unimaginable. So today's supercomputer is tomorrow's desktop?

And just imagine that back in the 60's those ENIAC's costs like 3 million bucks to build (at the time) plus several thousands more to maintain it, and its no more powerful than the calculator we hold in our hand today!

I wonder if technology will ever reach an apex or will it continue increasing until infinity? Sometimes I felt as if we already hit an apex, since it seems as if developments slowed down compared to a year ago... what do you think? will it be tomorrow we'd be playing halo-like games in a cell phone or calculator and desktops would be like 1000 times more powerful and better looking (like photo-realistic FPS..)

 

[HardWareBoss]

Cell phone speeds. 100 mgps download. 20 mgps upload. Today.

 

[HardWareBoss]

Correction 100 mbps download 20 mbps upload.

 

[arthurh]

We usually need a good long war to give technology a good kick in the a**. Well, now that we've got Irac we'll be seeing 10ghz in no time.

 

[Vapor]

One problem is that American is actually ending the fighting and rebuilding the country...looks like 3.2 is tops for now. If only some insignificant country could threaten America with nukes and not have any (without the USA knowing that, of course), then we'd see 10GHz Itaniums in no time (and like 16GHz Pentium VIIIs). Oh wait, by the time any country would threaten America, we should have beasts like that anyway.

Damn Rambus.

 

[ChipDeath]

Nah... Evil aliens attacking is what we need.. (but not <i>too</i> unstoppable obviously.. Then you get the twin 'benifits' of human tech advance getting a good push, Plus captured alien stuff to give new ideas and directions...

<pre>not that I actually want an alien invasion of course... </pre><p>
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[Vapor]

Oh man, that would be so cool. It could be like Halo without the killing and Flood.

Damn Rambus.

 

[ChipDeath]

Have you ever read the 'World War' books by Harry Turtledove? They're all set in World War II, but halfway through some alien lizards invade. Sounds ludicrous, but they're actually really good books - I'd happily recommend them.

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[Vapor]

I'll go see if my library has them. Looks like I'll have some free time over the next few days to read them too (I guess there is something good about strep). Thanks for the recommendation.

Damn Rambus.