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Originally posted by danieltiger
well if you look at the exponentially increasing rate of growth in the capacity and speed of personal computers then it seems like it'll be even sooner
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Moore's law is staring to fade. Transistors are getting to the size where it is becoming increasingly difficult to discern signal from no.
The only light at the end of the tunnel is quantum computing, which ate the moment is far from impressive. Major research needs to be done in this area.
Even if a quantum computer is built proper, it still signifies an upper limit to how small/fast computers can be made. There is a definite boundry that cannot be surpassed.
To analogise: The world population is currently growing at an exponetial rate. Do you think that this means that such growth will continue indefinately? By year 2100 will we all be standing shouler to shoulder across the globe?