The Future of Computing

webglee writes "What will the relationship between computing and science bring us over the next 15 years? That is the topic addressed by the web focus special of Nature magazine on the Future of Computing in Science. Amazingly, all the articles are free access, including a commentary by Vernor Vinge titled 2020 Computing: The creativity machine."

I predict

[Anonymous Coward]

a lot more ones and zeros.

Re:Don't underestimate...

[Anonymous Coward]

It is easy to understimate the speed at which technology is changing. Pending brick walls (insurmountable laws of physics), computing in 2020 should be absurdly different from that of today.

No kidding - by 2020 we should just be able to start playing Duke Nukem Forever in Windows Vista.

Re:I predict

[Anonymous Coward]

If you're talking about the moderation of posts on this article, then I totally agree.

The Immortal Words

[uberjoe]

Of Professor Frink:

"I predict that within 100 years computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings in Europe will own them."

1984

[2008]

Of course word processing hasn't changed since 1984. LaTeX and GNU Emacs were written in 1984... how could you improve on that?

Singularity == nuclear fusion

[Anonymous Coward]

The singularity is going to be like practical nuclear fusion power: always 15-20 years away.