What will the Future Bring???
The Power of Computing: PetaFLOPS
Computer speed may be measured in floating point operations per second
(FLOPS)
mega million
giga billion
tera trillion
peta quadrillion
NASA Petaflops page
Fields to Watch
- Leonard Kleinrock: Nomadic computing, ubiquitous computing
- Computer "Wear"
- Smart houses
- Smart tools (robots)
- Voice recognition and natural language translation
- Hard verification (especially biometrics)
- Artificial Intelligence
- Artificial Reality
- Artificial Life
- Scientific Visualization (E. Tufte)
- Nanotechnology
- DNA Computing
For some provocative visions of the future, see:
- William Gibson, Neuromancer, Ace Books, 1984 and
Virtual Light, Bantam Books, 1993.
- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992.