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Intel just passed its 40th anniversary and the nostalgic occasion had CTO Justin Rattner musing about the future of technology. He foresees new breakthroughs in medical technologies, specifically with regards to nanoscale chips capable of moving through our bodies. Additionally, he predicts more realistic robotic intelligence, and a blurring of reality between humans and machines. Chuckle if you may, but in his 35 years at Intel, Rattner has witnessed some pretty amazing advances in technology, many of which Intel was at the forefront of. When the microprocessors first debuted in 1971 they contained about 2,300 transistors. It has since ballooned to over 820 million and the personal computer has become ubiquitous in our everyday lives. If Moore’s law holds true, and we have no reason to think otherwise, the future may indeed be a very different reality from what we understand today. According to Rattner, “In the next 40 years, computer chips will extend beyond our computers and phones, as people want to become more entrenched in virtual worlds and computers learn to react to our motions and thoughts.”
So what do you think the future holds?
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dstevens
October 14, 2008 at 3:37am
The funny thing is that they pay Justin Rattner an amazing amount of money. What would anyone think? In the future computers will get slower? Were running out of things to discover? Computers will get dumber? That people will be happy with todays games forever? That porn, movies, medicine, war, gaming, and anything that generates money wont drive technology to expand? Im sure it takes a CTO of intel to say ... what? that technology is getting better and will continue to do so in the future?
Intel needs to fire him and hire me, i will accept 50% of whatever he makes and say the same captain obvious bullcrap he does.
strykyr
August 02, 2008 at 3:48pm
Porn...with a matrix type interface..They already got those crazy body suits.
AndyYankee17
August 02, 2008 at 3:10pm
I'm scared of the future, god damn bell labs for ever inventing the transitor
