Anyone else think Technological Singularity is a joke?

Quantum computing. Actual hardware is shipping now. This stuff is akin to what was possible with early computers, limited in what it can do. It's exactly the kind of thing that, if it can ride another Moore's law of expoential growth, will lead to crazy changes in the future.

For one thing, it's very likely that quantum computing will be able to break all previous forms of encryption. Quantum crypto will be a big deal in the near future as well.

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Originally Posted by Uberjager

And gee, guess what? Moore's law will go bust probably within a 100 years. You can't make transistors smaller than atoms.

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Funny enough, I just watched something earler today on the tube about transistors and what they are doing with them now. They called them transistor nano tubes I think. Anyway, now they are stacking the 4 atom small transistors on top of eachother to get more room out of them. Oh and it had this stuff called graphine jn the episode too. One atom thick and it had a better current flow than anything on the market today. The two guys who "discovered" the one atom thick graphite layer won the nobel prize last year I believe.

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Originally Posted by spyder

Funny enough, I just watched something earler today on the tube about transistors and what they are doing with them now. They called them transistor nano tubes I think. Anyway, now they are stacking the 4 atom small transistors on top of eachother to get more room out of them. Oh and it had this stuff called graphine jn the episode too. One atom thick and it had a better current flow than anything on the market today. The two guys who "discovered" the one atom thick graphite layer won the nobel prize last year I believe.

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You can make your own graphene with paper, a #2 pencil, and scotch tape. Crazy.

H.