For Moore's Law to keep working in the next decades, they probably will need quantum computers with storage and ram using DNA storage. One day, perhaps the binary code will become obsolete along with actual HDD and SSD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_digital_data_storage
Maybe but people have been hailing Quantum for a long time and nothing has propagated through the market. For now let's just focus on what's in front of us. That is smaller lithography, better substrate, and innovative manufacturing processes layering (3D).
https://www.techspot.com/community/...0-qubits-hefty-price-tag.232869/#post-1587343
I'm flashing on card deck programming branch to branch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_programming_in_the_punched_card_era
and PC ne pre-Neanderthals
http://www.oldcomputers.net/altair-8800.html
as they expanded out of Olduvai like Albuquerque
into new lands and new ecologies,
adapting and changing the landscape.
44 years from there to here.
Here's a short tail (sic) to make you smile.
It was about 2028 when Del and Dwayne were in Dwayne's living room before the mandatory exercise time. Del had just got back from the docbot and was going over the menu's he was going to have to eat before the next visit. Attached, as usual, was his genome map.
For no other reason than boredom, he scrolled down and a notice at the bottom had both parents contribution separated and included their methylation changes.
Del said to Dwayne "I wonder, what I would have looked like if I had your dad".
"Pretty much the same as me" opined Dwayne. "My map says dad's methylation suppresses and that's why my brothers and I look so much alike."
"Well, I got new Samvidia goggles for my birthday, I'm gonna model it."
"Maybe, let me finish this 3d rat sim maze for next year's biology class and I'll help".
"Why are you always doing next year's homework before it's due? You know how weird that it?
"You're the only one I tell about it. And I get bored. Brain dev games are too easy for me." "Anyway, I'm done."
"So lets see. Link your genome, here's mine. Yeah you have to enter the password twice. No clue why. Programming bug probably."
"Ok, my goggles say this is gonna take 45 minutes for the model generation. What about those new Samvids?"
"My Samvids say 5 minutes, but says it needs some cloud time, its gonna cost about 3 bccreds. I got 20 from gran on my bd so I'm good. You?"
"Nah, I spent my bd money on some paper comix. Alsin only publishes on paper and you have to wait a month before the hxnet can decrypt the schlieren nano layer to get it online. So I didn't wait."
"Well, I'll loan you 3. We're gonna have to run em both on the samvid anyway if we're gonna get em before the ciser bot shows up."
......
"Simulation complete" panned across the virtual walls. Del write shared with Dwayne, and they both gazed at their wuddaben virtual selves.
Pulling up his mom at 12, Del said, "I can always see her in my face on the overlay, but your dad's DNA completely changes the parts."
Dwayne, "Look at how much smaller my chin is and the eye space is a whole cm closer. Wow! Look at the iris size though. Looks like a japanime hero."
The Samvidia chimed, "Ancestral links complete." "Display?"
Dwayne said "Ancestral links?"
"Yeah, I'm reading the spec page and it doesn't tell me what that is. There's some kind of beta code sandboxed in there, but it says the code doesn't work yet."
"Well, let's see what an ancestral link is!"
Del flicked his finger. A wall of faces appeared. Each one speaking with no sound. He chose the fifth one back. A voice audid in.
"Ah, you can hear me now. We were wondering when you were going to break the encryption. Hello. I'm your great great great grandfather."
