I'm not much of a tech person and I have no idea if my observations are worth anything, but from where I'm sitting it seems computer technology isn't advancing anywhere near as quickly as it was from the 80s to the early 2010s.

The original Moore's law is dead and has been for a very long time, but the less specific trend of rapidly increasing computational power doesn't seem to hold much water anymore either. The laptop I have now doesn't feel like much of an improvement on the laptop I had four years ago at a similar price point. And the laptop I had six years ago is really only marginally worse.

So for those in the know on the relevant industry, how are things looking in general? What is the expected roadmap for the next 10 to 20 years? Will we ever get to the point where a cheap notebook is capable of running today's most demanding games at the highest settings, 144fps, and 4k resolution? Sort of like how today's notebooks can run the most intensive games of the 90s/early 2000s.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    You have a serious misunderstanding of quantum tunneling. As it is conceived now, it cannot send information. You can lock two things together to be facing the same way essentially, and when they move apart they will always face the same way. Useful for lock and key encryption, not anything else really

    Quantum computers are useful at very specific math problems but nothing else. Its likely they will make QPUs that slot in like a graphics card and their general purpose for consumers would likely be for light physics calculations in video games. For everyone else, it would be useful at cryptography and training AI models