That’s an awful headline, sorry.
Charlie Stross has another go at predicting the future – this time, of gaming. In bullet points:
- CPU power is going to hit a brick wall pretty soon
- There’s a couple of orders of magnitude of bandwidth to use up, but that’ll hit the buffers too at some point ("I don’t think we’re likely to get much more than a terabit per second of bandwidth out of any channel, be it wireless or a fibre-optic cable, because once you get into soft X-rays your network card becomes indistinguishable from a death ray.")
- Mobile devices will continue to converge (of course)
- They’ll all have picoprojectors in them
- VR glasses are actually coming along nicely
- All this leads to a lot of clever augmented reality stuff
Actually, just read Halting State.