Future computer outlook

Hewlett Packard has developed a technique for using individual molecules to make computer circuits. They hope over the next decade to refine the process to make computers ever smaller while not losing the capabilities that they have today. Amongst the uses would be wearable computers, computers within materials, and injectable computers for medical uses. It is hoped that the size would be 1000 times smaller than those of today with the addition of nanotechnology.

Any speculations on these developments?

 

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What about internal computers where the inside of the eye is the display and a small part of the brain is used as a hard drive. You could have a cell phone transmitter embedded in a tooth and the receiver mounted in the inner ear. Maybe a souped up USB or firewire port behind the ear for faxing/printing/loading programs.

I'm not being facetious here, this stuff fascinates me. I'd even be a test dummy for it. Though a friend did mention that he would hate to be hit with a stun gun. Talk about a scrambled memory.

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Putting a computer inside the eye is risky. For one thing the eye is filled with jelly. If the jelly seeps out then it is of no use. For another, you would have to put the pickup within the focal area on the back of the eye. Unless it is really small you will lose some vision where it blocks the image from reaching the cones and rods. Surgeons are reluctant to pierce the eyeball unless absolutely necessary.

 

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Smaller computers, less weight less space, more computers in everyday devices. We could have a computer system inside a CD case that could allow you to play a 30 second sample of any song in the CD inside, and list the tracks and various other pieces of information. You'll have smaller music player items, smaller, and more efficient palm pilots, and a whole bunch of other things. This will be good, too bad I don't have HP stock.

 

Would they go for it? What a sales pitch. Take this and no more 3-5 pills every day. And charge a bundle along the way. Think you're coming down with something, let's find out. Take this. (handing out danish pastry loaded with nano pills)

 

i think it would be very interesting to have much smaller computers. You could be checking your e-mail through your watch or have a 2 GB stroage disk the size of a quarter. While, even though it's smaller, it'll be 1000 times as fast as today's computers, which i find quite amazing.

 

What about non-mechanical harddrives? Anyone know when we will see them in high capacity. It should be fast like ram. I don't think DNA computers will really substantiate.

Also, 01001010, did you know that that is 69 in binary? I learnt how to do it without using the windows calculator last week!

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I'm happy for you, unfortunately "69" is not the only "meaning," if you will, of my username. There are some possible translations other than binary to decimal. What about binary to hex. Or hex to binaty to Ascii. Or maybe it has no meaning whatsoever (ie. the "182" in Blink 182.)

 

Going back to a previous post in this thread, implants within the eye are a complete irratation.

I read somewhere of a implant that could be placed into your eye that could take low resolution images of what you do, namely reading a book, Hacking or signing a paper while under an official secrets act.

From what I understand though, the implant SQID [Super-conducting Quantum Interference Device] although it might function as a sytem has no storage capacity, which means for it to be manipulated within the eye and have information recorded from it it needs to be inrange of certain eaves dropping equipment.

The equipment and a little frequency manipulation and the information transpiring through a doppler effect do the rest.
For people effected by this they might spy a black dot in the centre of one of their eyes which is the implant, and it might be more noticable when they try reading or focusing on something with detail.

I think the direction that Cybernetics is heading, although there are people working on direct connections between circuits and genetics I would think that people will continue using frequencies as a method of transfering information from genetics to equipment because it can be removed far easier if there is a problem.

 

Ive got this odd idea... that you could use a quantum computer and an equation making system, and you have infinite storage space.

Because each and every sequence of numbers repeats infinite times in pi, every peice of data ever known to man is contained in pi an infinite number of times. All you have to do is record what decimal place this sequence starts and stops, and you have the file. All you need is some enourmous computing power, because large sequences of numbers that you want do not happen too often in pi.

here is a simple example.

I want to store the number 1415926535.
All I do, is write this down : "1,10"

Now, I could give the "1,10" to any computer in the world, and it could calculat pi to the first place, the tenth place, and everywhere inbetween, and it would have my sequence of numbers.

Since we would probably not want to store that number (when converted into binary/hex it probably uncompresses to complete gibberish), we would need to find out what deciumal place a say, 4 trillion digit long number starts at in pi, and the number it stops.
The resulting file would probably be around 100 megs, because sequences of numbers we want dont happen to often.

The way to calculate this would of course be quantum computers, which could calculate each of these problems in exactly zero seconds flat.

We could compress files in a ratio billions to one.

Yea, I know there is probably a gigantic flaw in this that any amateur mathematician could spot, but its my two cents on the limitations of computing.

 

that's a very good idea. As you said, there are some flaws, but i could see something to that effect somewhere in the future.

 

how perseptive.

 

kmguru,

There are actually several companies out there now pursuing flexible displays. If I recall accurately, Xerox, Palo Alto Research center was one of the research groups who had developed some interesting stuff. These flexible displays are printed on polymers, which gives them their flexibility.

 

kmguru,

There is a company out there that has actually produced a 3-D imaging system. I will try to find the link to it that I found a month ago.

But as just an overview of the technology, what they actuall do is to place an image on a flat panel that sits in what looks like a crystal ball. The panel rotates at very high speed inside the ball and as it rotates, the image changes to the perspective you would see from the angle at which the panel is currently positioned. You get a true, 3-D picture that you can actually walk around. It was pretty interesting. They had only done work on stationary images, but with some appropriate camera setups, and some interferometry, you could easily develop 3-D movies.