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My dad and I were having a discussion about this recently and he says that eventually within the next 10 years or so, desktop computers as we know them will phase out and what will replace them will be smaller more powerful boxes about the size of a cereal box. He says there will be no hard drive, or a very small one and everything will be stored online (much like a cloud) on secure servers which you will pay a minimal fee for per month. He said we are already seeing this with Google Cloud and various online games. Most of your data is stored online and all you will need is a good bit of memory and a powerful processor to run applications online.
My argument was that I don't think we will ever go 100% online because of security and outages. What if the internet was down because of a storm, does that mean I can't have access to my data until my internet is back? I said we will need to store data locally still, even personal files. I doubt that will ever go away. What about gaming rigs? Most of us have powerful towers which I don't foresee getting replaced by a cereal box anytime soon. If I can turn my tower into that in 10 years, I'd be surprised. I about have a hernia now trying to pick it up.
He also mentioned quantum computing which I am not too familiar with. I can see things like holographic interfaces which can react to your touch using various sensors. I'm not too sure we will ever make a computer which will surpass the processing power of a human brain. I mean now, my cat has more processing power then the tower I have. A human brain according to a quick Google search processes at 100 million MIPS or the equivalent of a 168,000 MHz processor. A cat processes at about 15 million MIPS, and the most powerful super computer might process about 2-5 million MIPS.
What do you think?
My argument was that I don't think we will ever go 100% online because of security and outages. What if the internet was down because of a storm, does that mean I can't have access to my data until my internet is back? I said we will need to store data locally still, even personal files. I doubt that will ever go away. What about gaming rigs? Most of us have powerful towers which I don't foresee getting replaced by a cereal box anytime soon. If I can turn my tower into that in 10 years, I'd be surprised. I about have a hernia now trying to pick it up.
He also mentioned quantum computing which I am not too familiar with. I can see things like holographic interfaces which can react to your touch using various sensors. I'm not too sure we will ever make a computer which will surpass the processing power of a human brain. I mean now, my cat has more processing power then the tower I have. A human brain according to a quick Google search processes at 100 million MIPS or the equivalent of a 168,000 MHz processor. A cat processes at about 15 million MIPS, and the most powerful super computer might process about 2-5 million MIPS.
What do you think?