The state of technology in 10 years time?

Liquiduk · 9 May 2011 at 14:05

Title is self explanatory but I would like to know what peoples opinions on technology realisticly will be like in 10 years?

Do you think computers will be to the point were there is no more desktop/customization?

I look at it like there is only so much a screen can look like real life until it pretty much is in terms of graphic capability.

hybrid572 · 9 May 2011 at 14:13

Moore's Law suggest that computers will be ~32 times more powerful.

Desktop systems have persisted long past the moment of their supposed obsolescence- the niche market of desktop gamers will not die for many years, and that will keep desktop systems alive for many years to come.

I can see portable systems (laptops, phones and tablets) evolving significantly, though.

Danfoss2011 · 9 May 2011 at 14:20

UK to have proper boradband speeds and prices like some other countrys which are poorer than us yet have far better internet.

Liquiduk · 9 May 2011 at 14:22

Danfoss2011 said:
UK to have proper boradband speeds and prices like some other countrys which are poorer than us yet have far better internet.

Amen to that.

PermaBanned · 9 May 2011 at 14:27

hybrid572 said:
Moore's Law suggest that computers will be ~32 times more powerful.

And Gate's Law suggests that software will be ~32 times slower?

Orcvader · 9 May 2011 at 14:39

I believe we'll see more APUs and the use of nanotechnology with carbon instead of silicon.

I can also imagine more powerful smartphones... imagine a 590/6990 packed into a tiny 1mW chip...

Danfoss2011 · 9 May 2011 at 14:49

Everything being touch or voice activation, smaller, lighter, longer lasting, semi inteligent, new materials that are more advanced and better than carbon or titanium and AMD to of bought out Intel

danewesley · 9 May 2011 at 14:51

like the film gamer?

milkinc13 · 9 May 2011 at 14:51

in 10years everything will be faster, more powerful, use less power, more reliable and cost around the same as tech today

Kaeo · 9 May 2011 at 15:20

milkinc13 said:
in 10years everything will be faster, more powerful, use less power, more reliable and cost around the same as tech today

Yes, and will probably still be half tested and released with major flaws.

Judgeneo · 9 May 2011 at 15:29

Battery technology will have improved massively with the move on to capacitor like solutions. This will allow for far better electric vehicles, and truly powerful mobile devices.

Internet speeds and reliability will reach a point where the average user can have all of their computer needs streamed from massive data centres.

and then something cool that we can't predict

NathWraith · 9 May 2011 at 15:32

Superewza said:
And Gate's Law suggests that software will be ~32 times slower?

I did LOL to be fair. Will be quoting this at some point in the future

mathwat · 9 May 2011 at 16:21

I think games will be more like films...

CrixxzeH · 9 May 2011 at 16:26

technology, just 10x more intense.

deusexlumina · 9 May 2011 at 16:28

Not sure tbh, it seems more and more stuff is moving into the CPU, so i wouldn't be surprised at some point if RAM moved into the processor as well. SSD space? probably not given the limit of transistor sizes. But maybe 4-8Gb on cpu would be cool, or enough space for an OS. Then in theory the machine should load up in a couple of seconds.

The bios' of today will be gone, that's for sure, and a good thing.

64 core processors maybe?

Sampsy · 9 May 2011 at 16:29

Danfoss2011 said:
Everything being touch or voice activation, smaller, lighter, longer lasting, semi inteligent, new materials that are more advanced and better than carbon or titanium and AMD to of bought out Intel

Far more likely that intel would buy amd, seeing that it currently earns 6.7 times the revenue. This would not likely be allowed by regulators however.

Sampsy · 9 May 2011 at 16:49

Double post

Nigel014 · 9 May 2011 at 17:07

Lol, the world will have ended by next year.

keyser · 9 May 2011 at 17:21

Windows 10. DirectX 14. Ubuntu 21.04

SSDs will be main stream for OS and apps, mechinical drives still around for storage.

Moore's Law is about how many transistors are on a chip - the performance increase is just a nice side effect. The limit of how far light or electrons can travel in 4 billionths (4GHz) of a second has been around for about 5 years (that's why we have n-cores).

Many more cores, maybe games will use more than 2 in 10 years time

40" OLED 120Hz 0.001ms input lag insane res..

Atavist · 9 May 2011 at 19:17

Danfoss2011 said:
UK to have proper boradband speeds and prices like some other countrys which are poorer than us yet have far better internet.

He wanted to get "realistic" not "in your wildest dreams" estimates

Back on topic:

- proper holographic 3D (none of that stereoscopic nonsense)
- 3D transistor stacking
- solid state being the standard storage method
- mainstream use of voice activation/control

For gamers none of that will matter, because in 10 years' time we will exclusively be playing ports from consoles that are roughly as powerful as today's high-end gaming pcs... (Joking. Hopefully :eek:

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