Cool future tech graph for nerds - and a philosophical question

[Ideologue]

Sex program for my sexbot.

I'd imagine the near-human-level recording apparatus you'd need for a competent sexbot would hit terabyte levels fast.

[Josquius]

Certainly a pretty and well done site but he is on crack.
Space elevator? In the next 30 years? err no.
Arcologies? too much sim city....

What could you possibly need a 200TB hard drive and 750GB of RAM aside from Virtual Reality or AI? Most people will never need a computer that powerful.

My first windows PC had a 2gb hd and 16mb of ram and that was top of the range, more than enough.
These days...I couldn't even run a computer with that.

[Caliga]

What could you possibly need a 200TB hard drive and 750GB of RAM aside from Virtual Reality or AI? Most people will never need a computer that powerful.

I don't know if you are being ironic, but that's exactly what was said about our computers 20 years ago.

I remember having a conversation with my college roommate about how 32 megs of RAM was "a shitload" and "why would anyone ever need that much?"   I think that was before the Gates mis/quote was common knowledge.

[Ideologue]

I've got 6GB of RAM now, but honestly I think the only reason a lot of it gets used is poor optimization.  Like, Firefox and associated processes will utilize a good gig by itself.

[jimmy olsen]

What could you possibly need a 200TB hard drive and 750GB of RAM aside from Virtual Reality or AI? Most people will never need a computer that powerful.

I don't know if you are being ironic, but that's exactly what was said about our computers 20 years ago.

I remember having a conversation with my college roommate about how 32 megs of RAM was "a shitload" and "why would anyone ever need that much?"   I think that was before the Gates mis/quote was common knowledge.

Look how great graphics look when running a game like Crysis  with just 4 gigs, I think we'll hit photo realistic graphics with like 100-150.

[dps]

What could you possibly need a 200TB hard drive and 750GB of RAM aside from Virtual Reality or AI? Most people will never need a computer that powerful.

You might be able to get Crusader Kings to run on it without pausing at the start of every month.

[Razgovory]

What could you possibly need a 200TB hard drive and 750GB of RAM aside from Virtual Reality or AI? Most people will never need a computer that powerful.

I don't know if you are being ironic, but that's exactly what was said about our computers 20 years ago.

I remember having a conversation with my college roommate about how 32 megs of RAM was "a shitload" and "why would anyone ever need that much?"   I think that was before the Gates mis/quote was common knowledge.

I remember when 32 megs of RAM was a lot.

[Brazen]

Maybe I'm missing something, but much of the tech he's got slated for the near or in some cases distant future is already well advanced if not commerical.

[Grey Fox]

You'll need it because software engies are lazy & don't try to optimize anything. What's the point anyway.

[Neil]

Post-scarcity economy?  Space elevator?  Domestic robots (unless we're talking about the Roomba)?

The best thing I can say about this is it doesn't include power produced by nuclear fusion.

[The Brain]

When did he envision a fully formed Eurabia?

[Ideologue]

Post-scarcity economy?  Space elevator?  Domestic robots (unless we're talking about the Roomba)?

The best thing I can say about this is it doesn't include power produced by nuclear fusion.

It's like Tim wrote it.  It's ridiculously optimistic.

[Neil]

Post-scarcity economy?  Space elevator?  Domestic robots (unless we're talking about the Roomba)?

The best thing I can say about this is it doesn't include power produced by nuclear fusion.

It's like Tim wrote it.  It's ridiculously optimistic.

Tim would have included fusion.  Tim loves fusion the way that JR loves wine, grumbler loves arguing and Martinus loves feet.

[jimmy olsen]

Post-scarcity economy?  Space elevator?  Domestic robots (unless we're talking about the Roomba)?

The best thing I can say about this is it doesn't include power produced by nuclear fusion.

It's like Tim wrote it.  It's ridiculously optimistic.

Brazen says he conservative. Doesn't she write for a science magazine or something?

[Ideologue]

Post-scarcity economy?  Space elevator?  Domestic robots (unless we're talking about the Roomba)?

The best thing I can say about this is it doesn't include power produced by nuclear fusion.

It's like Tim wrote it.  It's ridiculously optimistic.

Brazen says he conservative. Doesn't she write for a science magazine or something?

If Brazen thinks a SPACE ELEVATOR by 2040 is conservative and writes for a science magazine, she's in the wrong line of work (or maybe the exact right one, considering technophilic but not terribly discerning nerds form the target audience for such magazines).  Fortunately, I don't think either is actually the case.