Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "This Chip Could Change Computing Forever" video.

  1. AEROSPACE Engineer here and I've heard some similar stories regarding many technologies like: 1950 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 1960 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 1970 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 1980 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 1990 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 2000 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 2010 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 2020 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. By chance can you guess how far away nuclear fusion will be in 2030? I'm Australian but did my degree in America. I was doing my degree in the late 80s and we EXPECTED to build Space Station Freedom in the 1990s and then be back on the Moon by 2001 to start setting up a lunar base that would be the start of a permanent settlement AND YES we took that date from the film. THEN the Challenger accident happened and as we know it was because of poor decisions being made by the wrong people. That has been followed by several 1,000 poor decisions being made by the wrong people and we are no closer to a permanent lunar base than we were January 28, 1986 when Challenger happened. I have spent the last 30+ years working across a variety of industries doing industrial control systems and trying quietly to learn from these industries how we might do stuff on the moon. So long as we have the combination of the wrong people making bad decisions in combination with the unrealistic promotions (and at least Cold Fusion does but "providers" into the story) of effectively vacant over rated (and often over hyped) "future technologies" that will re-shape humanity we wont (as a species) move forward because too many of the basic things like food, shelter, clean water, clean energy and a few other things are NOT DEALT WITH as a priority. I have spent most of the last 20 years working on construction mines in remote locations because it presents the same sorts of issues building a lunar base has. Everything is at least 3 days away, the environment is hostile and you have to build all the basic infrastructure any modern society needs including housing, food storage, food prep, clean water, waste water, power (including power distribution), roads and very importantly workshops for maintenance. While we have story after story of the latest break though technology we are also surrounded by crumbling infrastructure. Go and look at any modern society and you will find major infrastructure issues. They might differ from country to country but we all have them. Energy infrastructure is the major issue that most have and its a serious issue because everything needs energy.
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  2.  @radicalraccoon  Good comment. I'd however use the word viability rather than efficiency in the middle of the first paragraph because that's what your talking about with things like "ease of production." On your second paragraph however is that your 1/2 right in that some parts of the chip manufacturing will be the same or similar. In particular mounting the chip into a substrate and attaching the pin connections and then encasing it should be reasonably close if not identical. BUT if you have ever looked at how they actually make the actual chip in terms of the layering then this will NOT be the same. If it was then these chips would be on their way to market and they are still years away.
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  3.  @da7me22  I don't think they'd run a brick phone for a month but the point you make is valid. A lot of people do not know how much power these larger systems actually require. Just recently in North or South Carolina they rejected a company wanting to put in a sever farm. People ranted about jobs until they realised 2 things. Once built the server farm would have ZERO permanent staff as they'd run it all form other places. SECOND it was going to need over 900 Megawatts of power. The latest AP1000 Nuclear power reactors at Vogtle in Georgia cost US$17 Billion EACH. and they put out 1100MW. YES Computing systems now require massive amounts of energy and a significant part of that is cooling. Iceland is currently hosting a lot of the crypto currency mining systems. Because every transaction needs processing and in Iceland they have an energy free cooling system called "a window" and they just open it. Our wonderful IT world uses staggering amounts of power and mobile phones are just one part of it. Each mobile phone in itself doesn't use much power but the billions we have use a lot of energy to charge and the networks use a heap more to operate.
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  4. AEROSPACE Engineer here and I've heard some similar stories regarding many technologies like: 1950 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 1960 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 1970 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 1980 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 1990 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 2000 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 2010 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 2020 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. By chance can you guess how far away nuclear fusion will be in 2030? I'm Australian but did my degree in America. I was doing my degree in the late 80s and we EXPECTED to build Space Station Freedom in the 1990s and then be back on the Moon by 2001 to start setting up a lunar base that would be the start of a permanent settlement AND YES we took that date from the film. THEN the Challenger accident happened and as we know it was because of poor decisions being made by the wrong people. That has been followed by several 1,000 poor decisions being made by the wrong people and we are no closer to a permanent lunar base than we were January 28, 1986 when Challenger happened. I have spent the last 30+ years working across a variety of industries doing industrial control systems and trying quietly to learn from these industries how we might do stuff on the moon. So long as we have the combination of the wrong people making bad decisions in combination with the unrealistic promotions (and at least Cold Fusion does but "providers" into the story) of effectively vacant over rated (and often over hyped) "future technologies" that will re-shape humanity we wont (as a species) move forward because too many of the basic things like food, shelter, clean water, clean energy and a few other things are NOT DEALT WITH as a priority. I have spent most of the last 20 years working on construction mines in remote locations because it presents the same sorts of issues building a lunar base has. Everything is at least 3 days away, the environment is hostile and you have to build all the basic infrastructure any modern society needs including housing, food storage, food prep, clean water, waste water, power (including power distribution), roads and very importantly workshops for maintenance. While we have story after story of the latest break though technology we are also surrounded by crumbling infrastructure. Go and look at any modern society and you will find major infrastructure issues. They might differ from country to country but we all have them. Energy infrastructure is the major issue that most have and its a serious issue because everything needs energy.
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  5. AEROSPACE Engineer here and I've heard some similar stories regarding many technologies like: 1950 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 1960 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 1970 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 1980 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 1990 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 2000 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 2010 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. 2020 We'll have Nuclear Fusion in 30 years because somebody made a breakthrough. By chance can you guess how far away nuclear fusion will be in 2030? I'm Australian but did my degree in America. I was doing my degree in the late 80s and we EXPECTED to build Space Station Freedom in the 1990s and then be back on the Moon by 2001 to start setting up a lunar base that would be the start of a permanent settlement AND YES we took that date from the film. THEN the Challenger accident happened and as we know it was because of poor decisions being made by the wrong people. That has been followed by several 1,000 poor decisions being made by the wrong people and we are no closer to a permanent lunar base than we were January 28, 1986 when Challenger happened. I have spent the last 30+ years working across a variety of industries doing industrial control systems and trying quietly to learn from these industries how we might do stuff on the moon. So long as we have the combination of the wrong people making bad decisions in combination with the unrealistic promotions (and at least Cold Fusion does but "providers" into the story) of effectively vacant over rated (and often over hyped) "future technologies" that will re-shape humanity we wont (as a species) move forward because too many of the basic things like food, shelter, clean water, clean energy and a few other things are NOT DEALT WITH as a priority. I have spent most of the last 20 years working on construction mines in remote locations because it presents the same sorts of issues building a lunar base has. Everything is at least 3 days away, the environment is hostile and you have to build all the basic infrastructure any modern society needs including housing, food storage, food prep, clean water, waste water, power (including power distribution), roads and very importantly workshops for maintenance. While we have story after story of the latest break though technology we are also surrounded by crumbling infrastructure. Go and look at any modern society and you will find major infrastructure issues. They might differ from country to country but we all have them. Energy infrastructure is the major issue that most have and its a serious issue because everything needs energy.
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