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I posted this on the VW forum in the computer section. I figured I could get some good answers here as well.
So are computers like gasoline engines? We're dependent on a technology that was created so many years ago that has evolved, but will it ever really evolve unless it's redesigned from the ground up?
Will that ever happen because the entire world is dependent on the current way of things and it would take a massive amount of man power and money to change something like that?
I'm talking about binary. Computers think in 1's and 0's, electronic pulses of on and off, just like they've done for the longest time. What if some one developed a chip that could process information in a different way that made it 100x's more effecient and faster.
Would it be like an alternate renewable energy source? One that wouldn't ever catch on despite it's superior performance based on the fact that the world currently is doing it one way and to utilize it, software would have to be built from the ground up?
I was looking at several lines of binary that was some where on the web and thought about how outdated it is and what if there was another way of doing things. Kind of like the internal combustion engine; you can revamp and evolve the engine to make it more powerful and more effecient, but it's still running on a technology that was created a long time ago that has alternatives that could rival it in performance and effeciency.
So are computers like gasoline engines? We're dependent on a technology that was created so many years ago that has evolved, but will it ever really evolve unless it's redesigned from the ground up?
Will that ever happen because the entire world is dependent on the current way of things and it would take a massive amount of man power and money to change something like that?
I'm talking about binary. Computers think in 1's and 0's, electronic pulses of on and off, just like they've done for the longest time. What if some one developed a chip that could process information in a different way that made it 100x's more effecient and faster.
Would it be like an alternate renewable energy source? One that wouldn't ever catch on despite it's superior performance based on the fact that the world currently is doing it one way and to utilize it, software would have to be built from the ground up?
I was looking at several lines of binary that was some where on the web and thought about how outdated it is and what if there was another way of doing things. Kind of like the internal combustion engine; you can revamp and evolve the engine to make it more powerful and more effecient, but it's still running on a technology that was created a long time ago that has alternatives that could rival it in performance and effeciency.