I remember seeing an article about future computing in PcFormat '97/'98 (man has it been that long!
) which talked about how the computer would become an integrated part of our houses in the not too far future (around 2010)...
But I'm no longer sure if that'll be the case... We've seen MS & CO trying to create devices which would work that way, and it just doesn't work... And neither has the fridges which would read the barcode of the products we'd have bought and call the shop when we need more..
So my guess would be that instead of having one big "super computer" running everything, we'll instead see small computers in most of the devices in our houses with a wireless network between them, sharing computing power and integrating themselves further into our daily life... But I still think that day is far ahead...!
As for how much faster our computers will become...
I doubt we'll be seeing the tech evolution going as quicky as it has so far... Yes, we've not yet reached the end of Moore's Law, but we will meet it soon...
It becomes harder and harder to create smaller cpu's/gpu's, and we'll come to a place where the cost outweighs the result...
So unless there comes along another way to make computers (quantum anyone), I think we'll see a slowdown in new faster c/gpu's created the way they are today until it'll come to an allmost standstill..
But somewhere along that way chances are we'll see another way to develop the tech which doesn't require smaller and smaller gates/traces, but still grants improvements...
Maybe it'll be like it was between the 8086, 286 and 386 with several years between each new cpu... At least that would allow the software developers to catch up with the tech instead of lagging several years behind as they do today...
Oh, well enough ranting for today