[QUOTE=ixfd64;201810][url]http://futuretimeline.net[/url][/QUOTE]

2019

Computers break the exaflop barrier

An exaflop is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (a million trillion, or a quintillion) calculations per second. The world's top supercomputers are now achieving this speed. This represents a thousandfold improvement over machines of a decade earlier.*

This exponential growth will continue, so that by 2029, computers will surpass the zettaflop barrier - a thousand times faster than an exaflop computer of 2019, and a million times faster than a petaflop computer of 2009. One of the many resulting applications will be the accurate simulation of an entire human brain and its neurons, in real time.
[QUOTE]...or finding Mersenne Primes ...I added this part[/QUOTE]

2035-2050

Quantum computers are becoming available

Certain government agencies, universities and research institutes now have access to this revolutionary form of technology, which offers spectacular computing speed and power on a completely different scale to anything used before. These machines work by making direct use of quantum mechanical phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement, to perform operations on data. In addition to being trillions of times faster than earlier computers, they can be made absolutely secure, too. The machines' encryption techniques are virtually unbreakable, due to the almost unimaginable number of instructions being executed simultaneously.

[QUOTE]... and even more Mersenne primes ...[/QUOTE]

2052

Moore's Law reaches stunning new levels

The most powerful desktop PCs of today have AI systems equivalent to all of the human brains on Earth combined. It is becoming difficult to distinguish human from machine intelligence, with online services now host to entities of astonishing realism and interactivity. Certain programs are in fact merging with human intelligence, as the drive towards mind-computer links increases - fueled by the need for hyperfast exchange of information. Powered by software of colossal complexity, a wide array of devices are now available for interacting online.

With such raw computational power available, stunning advances are being made in the IT industry, especially when combined with the nanotech and biotechnology of today.

[QUOTE]... yep you guessed it .... MP ...[/QUOTE]

2060

Computers reach another milestone

Individual PCs of today have AI systems equivalent to all of the human brains which ever existed on Earth.* This is a result of Moore's Law - the trend in computer processing power which has been increasing exponentially since the middle of the last century.

Computers are becoming so powerful that many high-level tasks in business and government are being handed over directly to them. For years, software had lagged behind hardware in development, which impeded the spread of AI, but this is no longer the case. Ever more sophisticated programs have begun to create a chain reaction of self improvement cycles. This has led to an "intelligence explosion", with some of the biggest political decisions on the world stage now being influenced by sentient machines.

Of course, there are controls and regulations in place to guide these actions (to prevent the use of nuclear missiles for example). [B][U]Nevertheless, it is becoming obvious to everyone by now that machines are quite literally taking over the world.[/U][/B]

[QUOTE]Wonder if they will be interested in Mersenne Primes :-)[/QUOTE]

[quote=petrw1;201843]Wonder if they will be interested in Mersenne Primes :-) [/quote]
Certainly. Assuming, of course, that some of the "controls and regulations" we lowly humans put on them includes the desire to progress mathematics, including the search for Mersenne Primes. :whistle:

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[URL="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100115/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_facebook_at_t_glitch"]Network flaw lands users in others' accounts[/URL]

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Watch the marketers "milk" that one for every dollar....