I don’t think so.
I don’t think anybody in the 90’s thought that you could hold a computer as powerful as a Cray supercomputer, nut your smartphone is exactly that, even more so.
Now, it is expected that laptops and desktops will go away and everything you need to do computing will be contained in a smartphone. You’ll just go home and plug it in a docking station and run a monitor and keyboard off that.
If I told you that five years ago, there’s a good chance that I was just fantsizing an impossible fantasy.
Same with solar or wind. It’s just a matter of figuring out the right materials, circumstances, and understanding. I don’t necessarily expect to run whole cities off these technologies, but there’s no reason, if we can overcome the limitations that they can’t be an eventual part of how we generate our power.
I won't say never. But there is one thing that will keep your unlikely dream from happening.
Subsidies.
So long as a technology is subsidized, there is no incentive to improve upon it.
>> “I don’t think anybody in the 90’s thought that you could hold a computer as powerful as a Cray supercomputer, nut your smartphone is exactly that, even more so.” <<
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That statement isn’t true.
You may not have thought so, but the rapid increase in computing power was an accepted principle since the early 80s.