What will computers do in 5 years?

[Immortal Juicer]

5 years ago, I was sitting at my new computer waiting 20 minutes to dial up, sign on, search for, find, and download a fake pic of alicia silverstone to jack off to - and i felt like elroy jetson! hardly anyone had email, and i would never dream of buying anything online.

now all my professors publish their notes on their websites, i can find out almost anything i could imagine, i get email, news and keep my calender on my cell phone and i can jack off at my convenience to streaming, high resolution, full audio, full screen porn!

i cant wait til five or ten years from now. do any of you tech people know whats on the horizon?

 

[HighIntensity]

youll be excited to know in five years your computer will reach out and just jackoff for you...look to the future buddy, tech. will have nothing but a positive effect on your nightly masturbation

 

[Delinquent]

I remember reading something about a year ago where they are testing a wireless internet that is built like a spiderweb so to speak which will enable you to have multiple points to connect with. The main problem with satellite or wireless high speed right now is that if it's real cloudy or your in a city with high buildings that block the stream in any way, you lose connection. They were testing it in some city in Africa and the d/l rate was some ungodly rate. Like 600MB/sec not mbps. This if for the home user and will be readily availabe unlike ds or oc connections which are atleast $25,000 per month

 

[Lao Tzu]

what would you do with 4800 Mb a second? i get 1.3, and i consider that to be extremely fast.

you have to ask Matttheskywalker, Jae, Happyscrappy, strongchick, etc. they are in the tech industry.


i assume that computers will become smaller, to the point where it is almost unnatural to not have a computer you carry with you 24/7 like your wallet or watch.

 

[HumanShell]

Fuck your girlfriend.

 

[WODIN]

It better give me a virtual blowjob in five years! That or I'm going back to hookers and crack.

 

[Warik]

What will computers do in 5 years?

More, but not nearly enough.

-Warik

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

Well, I'm not in the tech industry anymore, but I can answer this question pretty effectively.

Computers are going back to where they started. Initially, computers had only RAM, and no hard disk. All storage took place on floppies. Well, in teh future (pretty soon) computers will have enough RAM that hard disks will not be necessary.

Imagine if your PC had 25GB of RAM. The result for the user is that you will be able to acces data much faster: the hard disk is the slowest component in your computer. Right now this is a little too expensive.

As far as Internet speed, the lines are already there to have super speed. The phone and cable compnaies are keeping iy slow. It is no coincidence, that cable comapnies have bought a lot of ISP's, and that phone companies like AT&T bought the cable company TCI.

Phone and cable companies are keeping fast Internet connections artificially high. Imagine if you could get super speeds, like a T-1 line (1.5 Megabits per second). You could make all your phone calls over the Internet - the end of the phone company. And you could download movies easily. So why pay for all those premium cable channels.

A T-1 line can cost upwards of $750 per month, which is out of range of the typical home user. Yet it costs the phone company almost nothing. A T-3 can be $10,000 per month or more, again, at almost no expense to the carrier.