where is computing going?

Energize said:
I specifically said integrated. Who wants to carry a dozen input peripherals with them when they can just use a laptop? It's not even practical to use a keyboard with a tablet at home.
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Most people whether they use a laptop or tablet, have some kind of case they carry it around in.

There are a vast number of tablet 'keyboard' cases out there, that mean you basically are carrying around a tablet with keyboard, at no extra burden to normal...

kd
 
Real VR (Holo deck on ST: TNG would be awesome) imagine playing a game like that, man FPSs would be great online deathmatches awesome. As for the present, I would love to build a system like
ASUS H61 - EPU, UEFI BIOS and Anti-Surge Protection - mATX Intel H61(B3) Micro ATX DDR3 1333 LGA 1155 Motherboard (P8H61-M LX) Intel Core i3-2100 Processor 3.1GHz 3 MB Cache
1333MHz 4 Gig DIMM-DRAM NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS with 512 DDR3 memory (PCIe 1.00 x16)
the size of a NES & it have no probs. & run great. I have recently been thinking about small systems.
 
I think the future will be about the combination of tablets & desktop computers.

Something like the Asus Transformer I guess. But a tablet PC that has a powerful CPU & GPU (quad core etc) that can handle desktop tasks. You can use it as a tablet on the go as normal. Then when you come home you can use it as a desktop computer by simply docking it and hooking it up to a PC monitor!

Only problem would be storage since tablets use flash but I'm sure they could design a docking station that has a hard drive built in so you literally just slot the tablet into the dock and away you go using it with a PC monitor/keyboard etc..you could even go further and use the tablet as a keyboard or mouse device!
 
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Read this book:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Singularity...5611/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323622725&sr=8-1

To summarise as best I can

2019 computers powerful enough to mimic human brains, probably at the same time where we understand enough about the brain to put it in a model
2029 perfected this model, computers now 10x more powerful
2045 "singularity" - computers have more power than our population and run on our models, full computer intergration into humans, possible issues with new "superior" race seeing us as ants. (lets get those models correct)
2099 Planet sized computers created by our computers, movement towards integrating all matter into computers. All answers to everything explained, possible movement towards some crazy sheeeet going on.
 
ScoTTyBEEE said:
Read this book:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Singularity...5611/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323622725&sr=8-1

To summarise as best I can

2019 computers powerful enough to mimic human brains, probably at the same time where we understand enough about the brain to put it in a model
2029 perfected this model, computers now 10x more powerful
2045 "singularity" - computers have more power than our population and run on our models, full computer intergration into humans, possible issues with new "superior" race seeing us as ants. (lets get those models correct)
2099 Planet sized computers created by our computers, movement towards integrating all matter into computers. All answers to everything explained, possible movement towards some crazy sheeeet going on.
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Portable apps on a stick or 2nd HD, saves faffing about when you perform a reformat. Been embracing this for a few years now. Some programs I simply installed, copy the folder to a stick, uninstall the program to see if the stick version still works and 7 out of 10 times it does still work. Just have to watch out for dependent DLLs elsewhere.

As already mentioned - cloud computing.

As long as there's a market for computer games, the desktop computer will remain with us.

Not sure about CPU speeds. People were chasing the megahertz until around 2003, then it was about hyperthreading and cache amounts, then from 2005, people were counting the number of cores instead. Peak clock speed was 3.8GHz in late 2003 looking on the OcUK main web site. We're kinda approaching that figure again 8 years later but with cores still being the main buzz. Any idea when we'll break the 4GHz barrier at stock speed?
 
I'm undecided, I think everything still has a place really.

Don't see an iPad or similar as a desktop replacement, nor do I know of anyone who has :/

Saying that, I used to feel similar about laptops not being suitable as a desktop replacement.

Written from my Laptop, my Desktop replacement... So I guess it eventually could happen!
 
If tablet computing takes over I will be sad, as my computer usage currently find no need for it. When I'm on the computer, I go on the computer hardcore for hours with gaming, working, interneting etc. When I don't use it, I don't use it. I don't want a kind of half way house where I might use it for 15 mins an hour to check something whilst on the loo, quickly check my email type of thing. Same for music, I have an mp3 player but nearly never use it because when I'm at home I have high quality speakers/headphones, when I'm out I don't want to listen to music.

I do realise thats quite different from some people though.
 
This would be my suggestion for where computing will go in the short to long term.

In the short term:
I think that we will see the continuation of the core race, reaching 12/16 in the next year or so (may be slower if AMD really do bow out of the CPU race). I think we will see more of the type of planning like ARM have done with their next gen processor where there are two slower and shorter pipeline cores which have the same instruction set as faster longer pipelines on the same die, thus being able to switch between cores as and when needed. SSD's will start to dominate until some of the intrinsic problems with the magnetic storage systems are solved in order to increase the total areal density.

In the mid term:
Tablets will continue to take off, becoming more and more powerful, and moving into the flexible regime. Stagnation in the development of technology as only researchers and large scale computing projects will require any increase in speed. Racetrack memory will become a consumer item speeding up RAM ever faster speeds.

In the long term:
Quantum computing will arrive with quantum storage, the power in your mobile phone will now eclipse even the most powerful current generation supercomputer. Spintronics based information storage will be used allowing massive areal density (almost 1:1 on the bit to atom scale). Programming will become the regime of quantum physicists who will be the only people able to effectively use the quantum computing systems.
 
Johnny Mnemonic tbh

we all want our data as fast as possible light as possible with no connections

embedded in body is the future how long god knows :p
 
augmented reality will be the next big thing. Having a robotic eye taking photos and publishing them on social networking sites for example. We got awhile to get to that stage but its going to end up like that.
 
Gotta say that tablet computing is far too inefficient, data input and manipulation tanks far too much for it to replace traditional input methods. I can see the strengths for absorption of data, but it's in no way replacing laptops and desktops, perhaps eating a little into market share as well as occupying the market its created.
 
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Monserrat said:
If tablet computing does take over, I guess fixed-line ISPs will decline in favour of mobile internet.
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If this means that I can actually use iPlayer at tea time on a Saturday, then I'm all for it. Bloody peak time. It's like I'm being punished for sleeping sane hours, my computing student friend just sleeps all day and gets gloriously huge bandwidth at 4 in the morning.
 
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