Computer Chaos in the Future

BY MAKKIYAH S. KHAN

THUD! What was that bang? Wait, that bang was a computer! Sheesh, that was loud!

I wonder if, in 50 years, computers will become virtual or soundless. So, if anyone drops a computer, it will not break or make noise.

Computers dropping without a sound or anything bad happening to the computer could probably happen because of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Computers could become virtual, augmented, faster, and more effective. Read on to find out how.

COMPUTERS IN THE NEXT TEN YEARS

By 2033, computers will be lighter, thinner, and more powerful. Global data will be growing by one yottabyte every year. A yottabyte is a unit of information, which equals 1 septillion aka 1,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000! That is a huge number, sheesh!

“The total general computing power will see a tenfold increase and reach 3.3 ZFLOPS, and

AI computing power will increase by a factor of 500, to more than 100 ZFLOPS!”, according to a story on the Huawei website dedicated to fascinating us with information about technology.

A ZFLOP is a measurement of computer processing power and refers to floating point operations per second.

COMPUTERS IN THE NEXT 50 YEARS

Moore’s Law is a law created by Gordon E. Moore, the co-founder of Intel, in 1965, which is still valid today. The Law predicts that the number of discrete elements on a square-inch silicon integrated circuit will double every two years. Discrete elements are any family of numerical methods for calculating or even counting the motion and effect of a big number of small particles.

While it is not exactly a direct relationship, you can interpret that to mean that computers will double in processing power every two years. That means in the years between 2023 and 2073, computer processing power will double 25 times! YIKES, that computer speed will be out of this world!

Computer processing power, aka CPU, is the ability of a computer to control data. A good processing power would be between 3.5 GHz to 4.2 GHz. Gigahertz is one billion hertz! That’s a crazy big number. Hertz are units of frequency that equal one cycle per second. Petahertz equals to one quadrillion hertz aka 1,000,000,000,000,000. If you aren’t shocked by that, I don’t know what will make you shocked.

If 6 GHz was the top speed in 2023, what will it be in 2073? Assuming engineers can find ways to keep up with Moore’s Law, and processor speed actually doubles every 24 months, by 2073, we would have a chip capable of running at 6,452,595 gigahertz, or nearly 5.5 petahertz.

It is hard to imagine what kind of applications we could direct such a machine to tackle. Complex computational problems, such as building virtual simulations of the human brain, may become a relatively simple task.

“Some futurists believe we may even create machines with intelligence far greater than what we have today,” Tauseef R. Khan, who is a ne- twork engineer and believes having computers will be better than ever. That is bizarre!

Computers In The Next 100 Years

If we continue to follow Moore’s Law, by 2100 computers would process things at 1,125,899,906,842,624 times more powerful than the current models! That type of power is mind-blowing! “They would probably be more powerful than the human race has ever seen,” Tauseef R. Khan, who is a network engineer and dedicated dearly to his job and making computers become better.

In the final analysis, computers in the next ten years will be 3.3 ZFLOPS, computers in the next 50 years will reach to 6,452,595 GHz, and last but not least, computers in the next 100 years would probably process things 1,125,899,906,842,624 times faster and more powerful than the computers we use today.

If you follow Moore’s Law, how much faster and more powerful would computers be in a millennium aka 1,000 years?