What will computers be like in the year 2100 and beyond?

Date: 04/05/2014

Think back 20 or even just 10 years- what were computers like back then? The answer: not very impressive when compared to today's computing technology. When we consider the dramatic increase in technology from then to now, it begs the question: what will computing be like in the year 2100?

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One of the leading people in the computer industry, Bill Gates, recently commented on what he thinks computers will be like in the future. He believes that computers will become more intelligent. The computers will have the ability to see, listen, talk and recognise your handwriting and they will become a lot more pervasive. The idea that we will just use a keyboard and one screen will also be broken wide open. In other words, conventional computing as we know it will change drastically.

Not only will the way we interact with computers change, but it is predicted that processing power will increase massively, as it has done from 20 or 10 years ago to the current day. According to Moore's Law (the idea that the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years), and assuming that the law remains constant, by the year 2100 computers will be 1,125,899,906,842,624 more powerful than current computers. This massive increase in processing power will no doubt lead to incredible advancements in computing. 

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Suffice to safe to say that computers will remain just as big a part of our lives in the year 2100 and beyond as they are in this day and age.

By Morgan