Comment Re:Future Headline: 64-bit app support ending soon (Score 1) 267
The day will come when people will grumble their old 64-bit computers are still working fine and yet they are being forced to replace everything with 128-bit computers.
That seems unlikely, even even with a bus speed of 1 terabytes per second it would take over 200 days to visit all bytes in a 64-bit address space once, and with processor frequencies being stuck in the GHz range it seems unlikely we'll have processors that can consume terabytes of memory per second. Of course we can simply keep adding more processors, but transistors simply can't get smaller than one atom so there is a hard limit to Moore's law.
There are various annoying physical limitations that limit how powerful computers can be. There is a maximum information density (bits per volume), the minimum required energy to process information, etc. You can't count to 2^256.