This article actually touches one of the facets supporting my belief that the lords return is near. Not decades, but weeks or a few years away.
One facet.
There was a Twilight Zone episode based on a short story, where the public became so dumbed-down, that intelligence had to be built into all tools.
A few years later, I saw a cash register in McDonalds that had pictures instead of numbers on the keys and I thought "We're on our way".
So True. 30 years after buying my first MS/Windows computer, all the vaunted ease of connectivity, transferring data, storage, etc... marketing just means the failures and problems simply occur in slightly different ways, on new devices, or the cloud. Same shit, different sandwich.
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We’re therefore quickly transitioning from the Death of Moore’s Law into the era of Moore’s Revenge — where pretty much every manufactured object has a chip in it. …And some of those androids/gynoids being made in Nihon may end up having chips on their shoulders.
“the inevitable death of Moore’s Law “
It wasn’t a law then; was it? More like a trend. But “Moore’s Trend” would have been insufficiently grandiose.
In the future, all of the appliances are going to go back to being dumb.
‘Cuz smart appliances are nothing but a security risk for your home network - or are at risk from your home network.
Smart homes are a dumb idea.
There was a time when chess playing software was considered an example of artificial intelligence. However, as programs became more proficient, the understanding of how the programs worked also became clearer. When you understand how it works, it no longer seems to be an example of "intelligence".
My present definition is that "artificial intelligence" is exhibited by any system which performs a useful service and whose detailed operation IS NOT UNDERSTOOD.
This article describes a world in which we are surrounded by systems that are performing useful functions but whose detailed operation is not understood and which defy efforts to eliminate idiosyncratic non-intentional behaviors. Much artificial intelligence in the future will deserve to be referred to as "artificial stupidity".
For some reason, this brought to mind something used in that Netflix show “Altered Carbon”. Altered Carbon takes place hundreds of years in the future where everything is connected.
One of the characters was using a completely unhackable video system for recording illegal fights.
They panned down to the system and he ejected a VCR tape. heh.
Sometimes older is better.
>> more nuanced gardening we’ll need to keep a profoundly out-of-control situation from going completely feral.<<
“Feral Computing.”
DAMN! I wish I had thought of that!!!!
Article is nothing more than saying we have reached the limit to what can be done with Semiconductors.
Smaller than 14nm, things become very difficult and near impossible.
It is very possible that yields might be too poor to ever make sense to go smaller than 14nm.
We knew EUV was going to be tough but it is turning out much tougher than we thought.
'Smart dust' aims to monitor everything
CNN, May 3 2010In the 1990s, a researcher named Kris Pister dreamed up a wild future in which people would sprinkle the Earth with countless tiny sensors, no larger than grains of rice.
These "smart dust" particles, as he called them, would monitor everything, acting like electronic nerve endings for the planet. Fitted with computing power, sensing equipment, wireless radios and long battery life, the smart dust would make observations and relay mountains of real-time data about people, cities and the natural environment.
Now, a version of Pister's smart dust fantasy is starting to become reality. "It's exciting. It's been a long time coming," said Pister, a computing professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
"I coined the phrase 14 years ago. So smart dust has taken a while, but it's finally here."
His web page at UC Berkeley has some interesting early information about a DARPA project he finished in 2001. He envisioned integrating a processor, sensors, and communications in a cubic millimeter.
SMART DUST: Autonomous sensing and communication in a cubic millimeter
Dr. pister was awarded the second annual Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovation, in 2006, from the I/UCRC Association, for developing and successfully commercializing Smart Dust. He has also focused his energies on synthetic insects, which he has characterized as "basically Smart Dust with legs." Professor Pister was award the Alfred F. Sperry Founder Award in 2009 for his "contributions to the science and technology of instrumentation, systems, and automation."
Kris is a co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC) and the Ubiquitious Swarm Lab.
He founded Dust Networks, Inc. In 2004, a company that specialized in the design and manufacture of wireless sensor networks for industrial applications including process monitoring, condition monitoring, asset management, Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) monitoring and power management. They were acquired by Linear Technology, Inc in December 2011, which in turn was acquired by Analog Devices, Inc in 2017. The Dust Networks product team operates in the IoT Networking Platforms group of Analog Devices.
I don’t doubt the proliferation of IoT devices will continue, but on the other hand, that’s all we get out of this article. A blinding flash of the obvious.
Anything that doubles every so often will soon exceed the number of basic particles in the Universe.
So it can not continue to double. Therefore the “law” is a fraud and has been from the start.
Remember the story about having a penny, and then doubling the amount each day. On day 30, you have 5 million dollars. 31, 10 million. 32, 20 million.
If I had any, it might. When they were threatening to hook your new fridge to the interwebs, my comment was that they better ship it with a checking account, cause if it calls service, I'm sure as hell not paying for the service call.
Not smart, just ‘cheap’
Human intelligence will always find a way around the rote programmed limitations.
The perception that these thing are ‘foolproof’ — THAT is the real ignorance and stupidity.
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Regards,
Moore’s Revenge has been replaced with Cole’s Law.