computer power will always be pushed to its limits because there will always be the newest game or 3d effect or vitural relativity that everyone will want. Computer power may slow but never stop.
SilverDemon

I think there will be a limit when it comes to home computers. For the storage, moving images (movies) will be the most consuming, and I believe people will settle for thousands of hours, which means 100 TB will be more than enough (development in compression might help further). When it comes to processor speed the limit will most likely be games that are as realistic as moving images. Or will there be any other need for more power for home use...?

In 2025 'the web' won't be a web but a supercomputer. It already is in some ways.

We'll see way other concepts and functionality as every electronic device, even nanoscale devices, will be interconnected. Most electronic (by then mostly replaced by 'photonic') counterparts will also function as a supernode. Private computerpower won't be that important anymore. The concept 'PC' will disappear. Any functionality will be available anywhere at any time.

Moores Law, which states that certain capabilities double every 18 months, is not the whole story: acceleration rates are accelerating also. Right now we already see some effects. In some fields capabilities already double within 12 months. Within twenty years you may expect doubling within a few months or even faster. And you won't need to buy another expensive computer or PDA to take advantage. Hitech becomes cheaper and cheaper, also at an accelerating rate. Development, production and distribution become easier and easier.

When nanotechnology in combination with AI is capable of intelligent improvements and constructing we'll see some very surprising things and we'll enter a complete new era. That is: if we, as mankind, don't blow ourselves up in the next 40 years.

SilverDemon's right. Whether it's on the web or a local device, the capacity needed for a few thousand hours of movies won't be the limit. Full-immersion virtual reality programs, especially ones which involve interaction with other people via the internet, will require vastly more power than that -- and there's no doubt such programs will be very popular once we get the computer-to-nervous-system interface worked out. Just look at how popular games like The Sims and Second Life are today.

300 terabyte hard drives are said to come in 2010, they announced it a month ago or so...

Thanks for you note kr3ml. 300 terabytes have mistakingly been reported for a new Seagate hard drive in year 2010, but it is actually 300 terabits, which is 37.5 terabyte. But they are well on their way...

100TB drives and 4 TB processor? i want one now. think of how real graphics would look (ps3 is almost as good as the real thing now with the right HDTV setup), most of the extra cpu power would be used up by AI in games making them almost as intuitive as . humans are. and with big improvements in neural control systems they would probably require huge amounts computer power to work..

I think its cool

Interesting idea with included films on the harddrive. That could be a nice extra benefit which influences the buying decision.

Check out my calculation of the Home-PC of 2014:
http://www.newsofthefuture.net/index.php?/archives/7-June-03,-2014-Home-PC-of-the-future.html
Notice the size of the screen...

i think u will need all that powerful processors n large hard drives cuz in the future things would b beyond high def they b like 3d or holorgraphic n for things like that u would need alot of storage n power to handle thoese stuff

100 THz would be quite difficult do do. To have a 100 GHz processor, you would have to cram a microprocessor into a space smaller than 0.3 mm because of the speed of electricity. However, they might be able to get up there soon with the development of carbon and 3-d processors. I don't think people will ever need this computing power as there will be many new inventions and only so much time in a day. As for me, I think in 2025 about 5-30 TB will be sufficient, unless they start mass producing real virtual reality 3-d projection games which can easily take up a few hundred GBs.

i think games will build themselfs in the future
because games will need alot of space and alot of people to make so it wouln't be a surprize if they come out with a super ai building machine to help

What i like about computers is that the possibility are endless.

Technology will continue to grow. I'm told AI equivalent to a human brain will be here within the next 50 years.
Im sure they could improve the AI after that, which means that we create life smarter then us, could be dangerous, but could be extremely helpful too, computers could do ALL the work for us...

Also some new neuro technology is ALREADY out; controlling computers with your brain waves, already... imagine this in 50 years of development. we wont have to do or say anything, we can just think it.

Can't people not invent a device that can increase the memory of the brain?

Can't people correctly use a negative referring to a question correctly?

now is it a single core 4 THz microprocessor, or like 2000 or so 2GHz, either way, i dont think it would work, the power to run the 2000 processors, or the 4THz one would be more then a nuclear reator, plus at 1THz it would be going faster then the speed of light, and i dont think we figuered out a way to admen that law of physics, not yet of course

I think that computer space will continually grow because the graphics, sound, etc. is always more complicated. HD is a relatively new and space-consuming product. Wouldn't it be logical that there may be more products in computers, thus using more space?

ElvaR,

People like you hampered development with that kind of thinking. People like you said 120 years ago that cars or planes were impossible and would require unlawful amounts of energy or other things to succeed.

Fortunately for us, your kind of people is a tiny minority.

@ ElvaR: your math and science is a little shaky. A couple thousand computers running 2GHz processors would draw around 800KW of power which can be accomplished with a simple diesel generator. A nuclear power plant can produce in the neighborhood of 1,100-1,500MW of energy or about 1,500 times the amount needed.

Also, experiments using far-infrared light is [i]already[/i] achieving near-THz speeds in lab tests. THz processing is an inevitability.

Ok, listen to this: One day we will have procesor, ram and storage space described above - implanted in our brain. I think i will have some benefit from comp in my head - like tool that i will use some time. U said your self that comps will be controled by brain, cobined with nano technology - logical :)

I think that computer space will continually grow because the graphics, sound, etc. is always more complicated. HD is a relatively new and space-consuming product. Wouldn't it be logical that there may be more products in computers, thus using more space?

oh god think of how fast a hacker with an few AI assistants could hack systems ect... example Ghost in the shell, chobits, neromancer, the matrix, ect...

Even for video graphics, there will eventually be a limit. Once we reach the point where all game graphics (both playing graphics, and cut scenes) reach a level of detail where the human eye can no longer tell the difference between the game and reality, there will no longer be any purpose to add more points to the point-cloud data which will be used.

as of now storage may not be needed but with new processors and new technology that haven't even been thought of as a concept may require masses and masses of storage and processing power anyways its better to have it and not need it then to need it and not have it.

Another issue with this though for the games to get better the designers have to work longer and harder on game projects making games more costly so there's a question is it worth the cost for a little added graphics i think so but will everyone else.
i like the look of the new HCD the holographic cd with at the moment a limit of 1.6 terabytes and hopeing to reach 6 terabytes on a single cd by 2016 at the moment the technology iis costly with all new technologies the drives are said to be 1500 dollars and the discs 400 - 600 dollars wouldnt wont to make a mistake burning one of them.

the concept of using you brain to control things is nearly here look at the new xbox 360 kinect that uses body motion only to use as controls

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Moore's law has slowed a lot in the last 4 or 5 years. Look at the specs of the computer vs that of 2006... Not a lot of difference on the consumer level.

hoe the f*** can u possibliy know all this

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Well this is near future where we are living I hope this technology will work better and make our lifestyles better

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I think this is really cool, because I would really love to have a computer like that in my house, and the price of is not even that much, because I got my regular computer which had worse specs(500 GB, I4 processor, and 4GB Ram)than this for $450. I hope this kind of computer with these awesome specs comes out soon in future! :)

Of Course computer power will have no limit to diminish the need of developing it. Home systems will be equipped with monitoring systems, which will monitor your health, humidity in the air, risk of various accidents, etc etc etc, it will store and analyze the data all of your life.