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What’s Next in Computing?
The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles. There has been a lot of handwringing lately about where we are in the financial cycle. Financial markets get a lot of attention. They tend to fluctuate unpredictably and sometimes wildly. The product cycle by comparison gets relatively little attention, even though it is what actually drives the computing industry forward. We can try to understand and predict the product...
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Quantum computing. We've basically reached the 'silicon limit' or whatever the technical name is. Basically, it means that shits so small that we can't make it any smaller and therefore we'd either have to go back to the first sort of computers - the huge things, or we explore a different type of computing, namely, quantum computing.
Edit: heres some reading material:
https://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20100329/1206118767.shtml
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/97469-is...m-the-end-of-the-road-for-silicon-lithography
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2836233/ibm-preps-for-a-post-silicon-world.html