Saturday, October 7, 2017

What if we went back to making car/house sized computers like back in the 70s? Refrigerator sized computers? AskScienceDiscussion

I was just thinking about the fact that our current computer technology does appear to be tremendously affected by how tightly we can fit the same things in it. From smart watches to cell phones to tablets to laptops to desktops, their processing power is limited by their size... but we restricted the size to small dogs.

So what if we increased the upper limit of the physical size of our computers?

What if computer engineers used everything they have today, or maybe with an additional several years of planning and research to accommodate for this newly introduced size? What then would the common "home" computer be capable of? Can anyone guestimate any figures, or paint a picture in my head how certain things would change?



Submitted October 07, 2017 at 11:37PM by Jon_FUCKIN_Harvey http://ift.tt/2gkbCwN AskScienceDiscussion

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