Today, coming out of Math class I overheard some people talking about the future of computing. Being interested in the subject, I asked, 'When we hit 20 terahertz or so, will computers emit light instead of radio waves and in that way interferance between chips will not matter so much?' In response I got icy stares.
It was expounded unto me that I had no idea what I was talking about, that computers could never get that fast, and that the future was not in clockspeed but rather quantum computing. When I asked, 'Oh, so you can transmit more data per clock then?' All they responded was, 'Go home and try to learn what you're talking about. Don't talk about subjects you won't understand.'
Uh... Sure. I didn't bother mentioning Intel's 20ghz ALU or their new .09-micron process. Weren't we saying that clockspeeds couldn't get much faster back around .3micron also? What about advances like SOI that let us go faster than we had previously thought possible? Is it so hard to believe that some day we'll get that fast?
Hey, and if we do, will chips emit light?
It was expounded unto me that I had no idea what I was talking about, that computers could never get that fast, and that the future was not in clockspeed but rather quantum computing. When I asked, 'Oh, so you can transmit more data per clock then?' All they responded was, 'Go home and try to learn what you're talking about. Don't talk about subjects you won't understand.'
Uh... Sure. I didn't bother mentioning Intel's 20ghz ALU or their new .09-micron process. Weren't we saying that clockspeeds couldn't get much faster back around .3micron also? What about advances like SOI that let us go faster than we had previously thought possible? Is it so hard to believe that some day we'll get that fast?
Hey, and if we do, will chips emit light?