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... PCM (or similar) memory. When (if) that shit hits the streets, it'll open entirely new roads for IT, together with several cans of worms. Doing massive data interception/decryption on an industrial scale will be orders of magnitude easier, faster and cheaper, putting it well into the reach of the ERGN(Enterprising Russian Guys Network) or the SOALN (Scions of the Over Abundant Lagos Nobility) or other similar entities.
Interesting times, indeed! :-)
Indeed. Mega fast main storage is going to be an enabler of so many technologies.
AI is going to be increasing a real thing in most people's lives. We've already seen medical diagnosis.
Robotics is going to be a *huge* industry which is why so many tech companies are interested in it.
The real kicker will be when innovation come mostly from the technology that we're producing.
At that point, it will become an automatic accelerating cycle.
I don't remember where or when I saw it, but there was an article I read somewhere about circuit design by automated methods trying out thousands of possible designs to come up with new and inventive circuit possibilities that no-one would ever think of by the normal imaginative and innovative methods that we normally use. I do remember a comment from the researchers about them not being particularly sure why some of those generated designs worked in the way that they did.
When our technology transcends our own understanding, then we will become the servants and the technology will become the master.
It would be good if this happens. It's possible, but there's a very long way to go before corporate governance understands that it is required to both understand and control the risk in IT.
You still have people using Microsoft Exchange for company sensitive e-mail, long after Snowden has shown that it is spyware for US companies.
You still have people using closed-source routers.
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