Computers will end up controlling alot of every day things. The Intergration of lots of computerised devices into a local network will be the interesting thing. i.e being able to turn ya oven on at 6, while running a bath and turning on t.v all from your laptop, or even from work or car or something. Lights which turn on and off automaticlly if u r in the room or not would be really energy efficient aswell. Computers will keep getting more powerful. . hit a border for a little while. . . then power on past it, then hit another border etc etc I guess heat will eventually be a major problem for super powerful processors, so new really efficient cooling wud have to be standard etc mmmmmmmmmm quite interesting really . . . . . But to me the most intersting thing which could happen with computers. . . . is networked household devices and appliances.

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Complexity of software and harware will increase exponentially as it always has. Internet will be expanded to control household devices and general concern will tend towards ease of use rather than speed or storage. Thats my shot.

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I don't see future in this. That all Sci-Fi for me anyway.

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Well, I think the future will look more hi-tech that what we have right now, who knows, somedays, everthings here in this world controlled by computers or even replaced by the crazy things made by you/us coz they don't stop doing crazy things.

Robots are already exists, and if they can make a movie like iRobot that replaced the human, they can do it in real life, and if the time has come and Robots is everywhere, I will only pray for one thine..."HOPE THE CREATOR PROGRAM THE ROBOTS PROPERLY OR ELSE FATE WILL COME NEXT."

 

 

 

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Hmmmm the future of computers is certainly a biggie....

My view at the moment is that if you can dream it its probably going to happen. The only question to ask is when it is going to happen. We are already building computers that can in their own fashion 'learn' from their input wether that be through voice or other forms of interface. Granted that this is only a form of response and prediction and in the scheme of things has still got a huge amount to be developed but its there.

We already have the capability while not approaching the capacity of the human brain to build computers with awesome processing power which the boandaries are being constantly pushed back.

I think there will be a certain stage in the development where we will reach a stalling point where advances past that point will be very difficult but those will eventually be solved as we march on in our inevitable progress.

The question that will be raised at some point will be the need to develop computers further. While I am sure advances will be made and hailed to be revolutionary there will come a point where we will not need bigger and more powerful processors. There is already processors that can run at something approaching 800ghz, while the processor burns out from overheating in a fraction of a second it is still a step in the right direction...

The march will go on...we just don't know where its going to end up

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This may be a rather bleak outlook for the future of humanity, but I believe that computers will end up managing everyday tasks, not only in the home, but will be operating every part of life, from manufacturing the car totally separate from human intervention to driving you to your destination. Unfortunately, as with all computers, there will be a crash or faliure somewhere, however, by the time it is realised computers will be unable to manage the planet everyone will have lost their basic skills of survival. It would be a very sad day if computers were the downfall of the human race...

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The PS 3 is going to be 35 times more powerful than the PS2, and it is 1% as powerful as the human brain. On an article I read, in 45 years from now, it will be common for people to download their thoughts into a computer at the end of the day, and it will be cheap enough for almost anyone to own such a device. The lifespan of a computer will be shorter. It's quite exciting to think of how advanced technology is becoming, and at the same time, scarry.

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awesome!

there is one major deciding factor for how much technology will grow, which is capitalism/economics. if there is a market for something like 6Ghz computer, and there is, we will have one.

a lot of times people are too afraid of technologies and the societies have to catch up to their own technolgoies. this is definantly the case with technology that provides convinience at the cost of security. there is a lot of technolgy already available that many consider to be a breach of personal security and are unwilling to use. like the use of computer chips and databases to store information about yourself for easy purchases, tracking things, &c.

wheter machine/computer can reach human level depends very much on what level we are on. we don't really know the answer to this, so how can we know whether computers can reach this? are we more than simply logical beings? or are we just computing highly complex logical operations in our brains (or wherever our CPU is) and therefore completly predictable if we can only reach that sophistication of calculations...?

these are very important philosophical questions!

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yes i reckon computers will evolve into stuff like irobot...it will be quite cool, as long as the computres dont take over...hehe

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