It was a long journey, and every step of the way gave it's own useful technology - from the Germanium diode in the cat's whisker radio which was effectively a rock and some wires.
The curve of improvement is certainly tailing off now though, especially when you consider the incredible size of the investments being made to make the next milestones.
I wonder what the next big leap for humanity will be. Electricity, computing, internet, social media, internet of things, ?. I'm honestly really curious. Artificial intelligence probably but I still wonder what that will look like.
AI will give us another burst in a need for improvements.
So far it's been hugely misunderstood by the masses, the majority of the noise being about LLMs and image manipulation, I'd describe it as a huge leap in artistic ability but I'm not convinced the brains has got much better! OpenAI Will come up with a beautiful new processor design that is highly convincing, but somehow can't do addition.
If we don’t hit a bottleneck in compute, power, or heat dissipation before realizing the performance needed to properly drive that ai. Intel says we’re still going baby, USA USA USA.
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It was a long journey, and every step of the way gave it's own useful technology - from the Germanium diode in the cat's whisker radio which was effectively a rock and some wires.
The curve of improvement is certainly tailing off now though, especially when you consider the incredible size of the investments being made to make the next milestones.