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Ten Technologies that can Revolutionise PCs
The PCs of ten years ago seem to come from a different age. What will PCs look like ten years in the future? Orestis Bastounis rounds up the technologies that could change computers forever
The PC has changed beyond all recognition in the last ten years. In 1998, the average PC was slow and beige. Windows 98 was considered cutting edge, nobody thought parallel computing on the desktop would take off, and the 90MHz Voodoo 2 (featuring the original incarnation of SLI) had just hit the market.
Today, those early 3D accelerators have evolved into the GPU, not only capable of pushing gaming graphics, but also general purpose computing tasks. Most CPUs on the market from Intel and AMD now squeeze two or four cores into a single chip. Storage is measured in 100s of gigabytes, if not terabytes.
What about the next ten years? There are seemingly many out-of-this-world technologies in development now. They could change the world forever, or they may end up as nothing more than a pipedream. We’ve picked ten ideas that seem most likely to change how we use PCs forever.
Read about them below.
