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Originally Posted by OtterBooks
We're still in the dark ages of computers, imo. My PC's "mid-sized" tower is 18 inches high, and the CPU is cooled by some metal fins with a fan strapped to it; a cooling concept that may actually be 100 years old. We're only now starting to move away from hard drives based on turntable technology.
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My opinion is that computer technology will not be mature until it shaves away every atom that isn't essential to a stable, usable computer. Look at the old days when minimum chip features were thousands of nanometers across-- now, they are only tens of nanometers. (Hopefully, we'll sooner or later be able to work with a handful of
graphene crystals and still have a couple of orders of magnitude of processing increases left before we hit a hard limit.) I won't concider ebook reader technology mature as long as the whole reader is thicker than a sheet of paper. They'll likely be grown rather than built.
It is like how you make a statue of an elephant-- you take a marble block, and you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.