Computers Will Require More Energy Than The World Generates By 2040

[Fweethawt]

http://www.sciencealert.com/computers-will-require-more-energy-than-the-world-generates-by-2040

[midniterider]

Sky is falling.

[Guest Furball]

The robots better hurry up they're going to enslave the humans and take over the world.

[mwc]

     The solution is obvious.  Sentient computers should grow humans to use them as some sort of batteries.  But, for some reason, keep humans mentally active and fool them into thinking it's the late 90's since that was just the best time to be alive believe it or not.  Then, well, no one really cares what happens after this.

 

          mwc

[Fweethawt]

Mwc = red pill

[midniterider]

     The solution is obvious.  Sentient computers should grow humans to use them as some sort of batteries.  But, for some reason, keep humans mentally active and fool them into thinking it's the late 90's since that was just the best time to be alive believe it or not.  Then, well, no one really cares what happens after this.

 

          mwc

 

That'd be a lot easier than just exterminating humanity and building a few fusion plants. 

[quinntar]

Why don't they put solar panels in mobile phones? (Would that work)

[quinntar]

Why don't they put solar panels in mobile phones? (Would that work)

Solar cells?

[Voice]

 

Why don't they put solar panels in mobile phones? (Would that work)

Solar cells?

 

 

Yah, like calculators. It would work.

 

As to the original post, pfff... No. Less. Always less. Always. These articles model current technology which is like old TV and radio tube technology compared to what's being developed now, molecular, quantum computing. As things get smaller they require less power.

[WarriorPoet]

Moore's law is about to hit its inevitable brick wall, but it has nothing to do with energy concerns.  The problem is, there is a physical limit to how small a transistor can be.  Once an object gets so small as to be only a few nuclear radii in length, it effectively has zero electrical resistance, which means that it cannot function as a transistor, or a solid state electronic component of any kind.  If technology keeps pace with Moore's law, we will hit this wall much sooner than 2040.

[midniterider]

For most of human history there was no transistor.

 

Technology might stagnate due to atomic limits , but I bet some bright mind figures out something to get past that wall.

[rjn]

 

     The solution is obvious.  Sentient computers should grow humans to use them as some sort of batteries.  But, for some reason, keep humans mentally active and fool them into thinking it's the late 90's since that was just the best time to be alive believe it or not.  Then, well, no one really cares what happens after this.

 

          mwc

 

That'd be a lot easier than just exterminating humanity and building a few fusion plants. 

 

 

Or letting self-replicating nano-bots construct a Dyson Sphere around the Sun. Why use humans though? Why not use elephants or giraffes? They have huge hearts and their virtual reality could be rather mundane: an eternally flourishing savanna with food aplenty.