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loli_vampire
I have some ideas concerning computers and technology I would like to run by some of you guys and have a discussion about. I like to look at certain technologies and think about where they are headed. Computers for example. As we can do more and more on our cell phones which are computers in our pockets, the less we need desktop or laptop computers. Right now full size computers have 3 big advantages: 1. Large display (Though some phones can be hooked up to monitors or TV's) 2. Specialized software that can't easily be used on a phone. 3. Processing and graphics power to run advanced software and games. The processing power of phones is advancing radically to where soon it will only rarely be an issue. For most people, it's only in games that they require the most processing power. However, as 4k is becoming standard and higher resolutions are being explored, the main processing load is being pushed more to the graphics side from the cpu side. This means that some aspects of cpu power are less important and it shouldn't be too long before phone cpu's are powerful enough to run most games. However, the graphics side of phones won't be able to deal with high-end games anytime in the near future, it's just too underpowered. If they built a phone with a fast enough interconnect, you could dock it with a home base system with monitor, keyboard and desktop graphics card and likely run most high-end games. However, I have no idea how powerful the cpu has to be for this to be practical. But regardless, I do see smartphones replacing traditional computers soon. I would even go a step further and say that you don't even need a monitor in a few years, just a VR display. Or one step further and they are already working on contact lenses with built in augmented reality displays. Put on some gloves with motion sensors and you don't need a keyboard either. Think along the lines of Johnny Mnemonic for those here old enough to know that movie. Also hardware is nothing with software. Right now games and social media are fragmented with different types of programming languages and graphics. I see the concept for a unified virtual world where all games and social media exist interactively. Think of it like a big city where each building is a different program or game. There are also multiple visualization levels with more detail rendered by more powerful hardware and details are simplified for cheaper hardware so you don't require specific hardware to join in. I don't mean it has to be visualized as a city specifically, though it can be, I just mean that all the programs are based on the same sub structure of coding and upgrades to this coding base upgrades all the programs. To use a simplified example; some games use Frostbite engine and some use Unreal etc. What if they all used the same engine? This is oversimplifying it, I'm thinking more advanced concepts but that's the general idea. Social media could be virtualized like games. Everyone could have their own house or apartment or however you want to visualize your "home". Your computer interface would rely on biometrics so you never need to remember passwords (unless you want extra security).
ordinary_magician
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loli_vampire
I keep hoping they come up with room temperature superconductors. Imagine if we didn't have to worry about chips overheating or electrical loss as thermal. Opens up amazing possibilities. Amazingly low power requirements and you could layer chips even thousands of layers thick. Large room size supercomputers reduced to the size of a brick.
kuharido
Dec 10, 16 at 5:57pm
I'd love to see more hologram technology. especially non invasive holographic imaging for the body. Would help medicine a lot
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