OT: ILM's new computer systems

[inigma]

I'd say those specs are reachable in 7-10 years for PCs.

Within 4-5 years pending a miniturization breakthrough.

[inigma]

I wonder if by then, that Space Empires would be capable of modelling 3D laser-spectroscopic displays, or E-Ink rollable flatscreens, sporting advanced AI smart enough to learn from your hubris, and tactful enough to out-propagandize you in even a multiple human game, while convincing you that their trade offer is really comprising of their high end designs and not cheap gutted out ships.

By that time, real-time Google-mobile enabled wearable wrist devices will alert you to when your turn is ready, and when your preprogrammed away-ministers have completed their complicated tasks to the chargrin of the poor saps who have weaker ministers.

Accessing SEVII over PBW3 via your wrist pad, remotely transmitting its screen data wirelessly to your job's nearby e-ink rollable-screen mobile-enabled station on your desk as you complete complicated tasks using the wireless keyboard and wireless finger mouse rings to manipulate data on the screen, or on the 3D projection field on the lasertron.

Notcing your boss comming, you make a flick of the wrist to turn off the transmission, and the screens revert to your normal work displays - now THAT is the future of computing.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

VR holodeck, capable of creating any game you want out of a simple text description, which can be as simple as 'Chess game, standard rules'.

[inigma]

VR will never happen.

Holodecks will become a reality in 15 years, the first prototypes will be developed in 2008.

Tactile holodecks, however, will never become a commercial entertainment reality though.

[inigma]

Tactile holodecks will only be developed and practically usable for only large scale planetary industry, and experimental materials development. The quantum energy involved in such a device would cost more than the total output of most stars, and I would assume that such a technological development would be banned between most interstellar governments once it is perfected as a weapon.

Commercially, destroying stars will not be considered a viable option in the long run, and most likely will be a form of experimentation that is shunned and persecuted for its destructive concequences.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I wasn't refering to ST holodecks, but to mind-machine interfaces.

[Suicide Junkie]

If you're trying to create a tactile interface, you don't want to be building your matter stuff up from pure energy.

Manipulating pre-existing atoms into the chemicals you want and then moving them to where they are needed would be much simpler.

Or forego the matter entirely; just stimulate nerves for fine tactile sensations, and use VR exoskeletons for blunt forces.

[dogscoff]

inigma said:
By that time, real-time Google-mobile

{Network busy. Please try later.}

enabled wearable wrist devices will alert you to when your turn is ready,

Damned screen is cracked. I knew I shouldn't have gone for the "wristpod nano".

Accessing SEVII

{Hi! I see you're accessing SEVII! As a valued customer of our mobile network (co-incidentally part of the same as the megacorporation that publishs of MOO13), we like to monitor everything you do and then try to sell you crap you don't want. Our database shows that you may be interested in accessing MOO13! Would you like to access MOO13? Click below to purchase MOO13. }
*click closed*
{Are you sure you don't want to access Moo13?}
*click no*
{here are some screenshots of Moo13. Doesn't it look pretty? Look, look, pretty planets. Are you really sure?}
*Click closed*
{Look, I was only trying to show you some stuff that I know you'll like. If you're not going to be reasonable, I'll just stop working.}
*Sigh. Click Moo13*

over PBW3 via your wrist pad,

{Your wristpad's GPS says you just walked past a McDonalds! Are you sure you wouldn't like a Big Mac? Your wristpad's biometrics monitor shows us that you only took a crap half an hour ago, so we know you've got room for at least a quarter-pounder.}

remotely transmitting its screen data wirelessly

{The data you're transmitting is formatted in some stupid, poxy standard designed and approved by the entire industry. Please use an uneccesarily complicated Microsoft standard format.}

to your job's nearby e-ink

{Your E-ink levels are low. Click below to purchase a new manufacturer-approved e-ink cartridge for $250, or a new monitor for $120.}

rollable-screen mobile-enabled station on your desk

{This station's license for Windows Vespa has expired. you didn't forget to pay or anything, we just changed the license because we felt like screwing some more cash out of you. Send us money immediately, or we'll call the cops. Not nice cops either, but really ugly, bad-tempered ones with illegally-modified tasers and broken CCTV in the interrogation cell. Believe us, we can do that. Love and kisses, Microsoft.}

as you complete complicated tasks using the wireless keyboard and

I really ought to clean those breadcrumbs and curry blobs out of there...

wireless finger mouse rings to manipulate data on the screen,

Ewww... OK, who's been using my finger rings without washing their hands?

or on the 3D projection field

What's this massive pair of boobs doing on my 3D projection field? Bloody hackers...

on the lasertron.

Activate... the Lasertron! *Doctor Evil laugh*

Notcing your boss comming, you make a flick

*flick* *smack* Oops, sorry boss, I was just uh... just...

of the wrist to turn off the transmission,

"It's no use switching your transmission off, Jenkins, I've been monitoring all your computer activity, and I also have 24 hour GPS-linked CCTV footage of every movement you made, since the second you signed your contract of employment, so yes: we know about what you've been doing with Sandy from marketting in the stationary cupboard and yes, we know what you got up to in Amsterdam last year. You're fired. That information has already been entered into the network and shared around the internet, so you'll be blacklisted by every potential employer before you're even considered for interview for the rest of your life. Given the massive unemployment rates caused by the the increasing autonomy of modern computers, I doubt you'll ever work again. You won't even get cash in hand work, since notes and coins were phased out completely and replaced by more easily-taxed and monitored forms of electronic money. Have a nice day.

- now THAT is the future of computing.

No, THAT is the future of computing.

[NullAshton]

I betcha they have killer virtual-reality systems by then.

[Renegade 13]

dogscoff said:

{Your wristpad's GPS says you just walked past a McDonalds! Are you sure you wouldn't like a Big Mac? Your wristpad's biometrics monitor shows us that you only took a crap half an hour ago, so we know you've got room for at least a quarter-pounder.)

That one made me laugh so hard, thanks dogscoff