You know, in the 80s people often said things like "in 40 years, everything will have computers in them", and while they weren't wrong, they severely underestimated the situation.
Our computers have computers in them. Those smaller computers often have even smaller computers inside them.
We didn't get a "everything is a computer" future, we got a future with fractal computers. The fuckers have metastasized
@foone Will never forget the moment when I discovered that the "5G module" in my router is actually another ARM CPU running (wait for it...) Android! So a phone, basically, as the path of least resistance to a shipping product. This means that not only is there a computer inside my computer, but there's a Linux inside my Linux. And that's before we get onto the ARM CPU embedded in the microSD card...
@foone Very true. I happen to write code for one of the computers that runs inside of a CPU handling voltages, frequencies, temperature, etc. Looking forward to the day when it gets its own little computer.
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I'm hoping an organism will evolve that breaks down computers and eats them. Happened for wood, millions of years ago. (May have taken a long time though.) And it's starting to happen for plastic.
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