AMD-Fan
10-07-2002, 05:25 AM
Hey All, im new to the forum but i thought it would be fun to speculate on what computers will be like ten years from today.
Ethernet will become a standard household internet connection. 1000MBit being the norm, and wireless buzzing at around 1000MBps, but only as a premium service much like cable or dsl because of the convinience.
Motherboards will do away with copper and use tiny strands of a polymer much like fiber optic today but 20 times the bandwidth.
Quantum computers will become an emerging technology affordable by major companies, ISP's and the government. Speeds will start off at 400GHz and increase exponentially after that. After a few more years of mastering the technology, quantum computing would become a household item like the coffee pot and the TV
Hard drives will no longer use standard platters but will be written to on the molecular layer, much like quantum computers. Hard drives of 500 Terabytes being the norm.
Storage media will use the same circular shape we all have come to love today, but will be able to handle 1 terabyte of info on a CD
You may look at these suggestions and say this will never come to fruition and why would we need this much space. Just think back to what Bill Gates said about only ever needing 640K of memory, and look back at your old computer magazines and see what "top of the line" was 5-7 years ago. You never know, in 10 years, they could probably exceed my projections. Lets just keep in mind that this is just for fun, hehe.
Ethernet will become a standard household internet connection. 1000MBit being the norm, and wireless buzzing at around 1000MBps, but only as a premium service much like cable or dsl because of the convinience.
Motherboards will do away with copper and use tiny strands of a polymer much like fiber optic today but 20 times the bandwidth.
Quantum computers will become an emerging technology affordable by major companies, ISP's and the government. Speeds will start off at 400GHz and increase exponentially after that. After a few more years of mastering the technology, quantum computing would become a household item like the coffee pot and the TV
Hard drives will no longer use standard platters but will be written to on the molecular layer, much like quantum computers. Hard drives of 500 Terabytes being the norm.
Storage media will use the same circular shape we all have come to love today, but will be able to handle 1 terabyte of info on a CD
You may look at these suggestions and say this will never come to fruition and why would we need this much space. Just think back to what Bill Gates said about only ever needing 640K of memory, and look back at your old computer magazines and see what "top of the line" was 5-7 years ago. You never know, in 10 years, they could probably exceed my projections. Lets just keep in mind that this is just for fun, hehe.