And anyway, most people still using 32-bit time on a 32-bit system at the end of 32-bit time will be "time traveling" to a date in the past anyway, to keep their systems running. Most cases will be either legacy software in VMs, or the retro hobbyist, neither of which should be affected greatly by mismatched dates

Honestly, the systems where this will be an issue are essentially prehistoric. x64 has been supported by essentially every mainstream x86 processor since about 2005. Unless you have a dire need to repartition a Pentium II box, or some ancient Compaq Proliant RAID, this move will have no bearing on most people.

Of course, it might hit those in the retro computing community quite hard, but again, it's not like the i386 versions will cease to exist. You just won't have the latest cutting edge features and support. But again, those users are likely to be using older versions of the software already anyway

How long until we have Fallout-esque robobrains. Seems this sort of computer would be well adapted to powering a humanoid robot, especially with it's learning capabilities. And then how keen are those robots going to be to living a life of servitude. Are we working our way towards a Kaylon threat of our own?

Given a computer is just a very expensive space heater, capturing the "wadte" heat and using it to heat homes is a very sensible idea. "Waste" and "Byproducts" are almost always just "products" waiting for a use.

I used to run Folding@home in the winter on my old dual CPU rig. Definitely helped keep the chill off. In that situation, it was the heat i wanted and the science research was a nice bonus

"Cloud, "NFT", and now "AI"

Most people understand a star as being the center of a solar system. And again, most people can understand a binary star as having 2 stars at the center, with planets orbiting around both.

This system however throws that out of the window. Sure, the stars are a binary system, but to the planet, the White dwarf orbits like a planet. So whilst it is a binary star system, from the planet's perspective, it's not. The white dwarf is just a big glowing planet orbiting a star.

On another note, it would be a fantastic spectacle to view the parent stars on that planet. Sometimes you'd have day and night, other times you'd have day and not-so-day.

Hydrogen electrolysis is the one i think we should focus on. It would produce fuel for vehicles for practically nothing, and help balance the grid. It's also quite responsive to power increases and decreases, meaning it would be great for power smoothing. It also doesn't have issues with inductance, which (large) motors suffer from, which can cause problems on the grid itself.

It's literally a case of turn the electrolysis on, or turn it off. And of course, if you generate too much, you can just flare it off. Of course you can always just store loads of it and then burn it to make more electricity when demand is high and supply is low.

Power grids are a case of balancing supply and demand. You can either increase demand, or cut supply. Cutting supply is difficult with solar, without turning some of it off. A solution to this is to increase demand. Hydrogen electrolysis is a simple, which can be very responsive to ramp ups and downs. This would have the added bonus of producing fuel that could then be burned in vehicles, or even as an alternative to natural gas.

They're historically pretty crap at their own architectures. In fact, even x86 and it's heritage owes it's existence to the 4004, on who's ISA was defined by Datapoint. so even the x86 isn't wholly Intels own creation. And of course, lets not forget the x86-64 extensions were AMD's brainchild.

HP buys Intel, and another global juggernaut fades into obscurity

You need to then chop those trees down and store/bury them deep within the earth. Any attempt to "capture" CO2 in plant material is nullified the moment it is burned or rots.

I remember when everyone was hyping push notifications in Chrome as the next greatest thing. Now they're probably the number one source of malware and adware.

Nuclear powered ocean liners

I think the period between the late 80's and mid 00's if often overlooked, and possibly overshadowed by some prominent tech "failures". However, we went, quite quickly mind you", from 8 and 16-bit chips that require little to no cooling solutions, to 32 (and later 64) bit behemoths that ran at a clockspeed thousands of times faster than chips before, and orders of magnitude more instructions-per-clock. In some ways, it seems insane that you could buy a commodore 64 with a 6502 clocked at 1mhz, at the same time as you could buy a PC with a 486 DX2 at 50MHz. Just a decade after, Pentium 4's with 3GHz clockrates and cooling requirements that far outstripped solutions available became widely available. That pre-millenium timeframe was a truly significant period where computers went from slow and limited, to absolute powerhouses. I think it's pretty astonishing that even a Pentium II can be a usable machine in this day and age, as long as you acknowledge it isn't going to be lightning fast.

There's this other technology, that's much higher fidelity than AM, and is also free. FM radio. If it was all about making a few bucks, wouldn't car companies be clamouring to remove that too?