Looking forward

Turning a transistor on/off - number of electrons:

1997: 10³
2010: 8-9
2020: < 1

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We already have DNA based computing, the beginning of Quantum Computing, ...

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50 years: Auxiliary brain

• a single chip storing 2x10¹⁶ bits of data, ~storage capacity of 10⁵ human brains.
• volume of 1 cubic centimeter, about the size of a sugar cube.
• with power of 500 million Pentium Pros
• able to record life's experiences and replay them

"We should not be shy about our predictions."

-- Joel Birnbaum, Senior VP R&D and Director of HP Labs[6]