Arthur Hanson
Well-known member
With TSM leading the shrink race to its coming end, we will be entering the age of the prolifieration of nanotechnlogy on a scale never seen before. Now the resoursces of skill, finanaces, time, sophistcated data management and AI/ML will lead to a vast broadening of the applications that have been learned from the semi shrink race. This will yield ever more sophisticated devices on complex SOCs of ever more complex combinations of numerous technologies. This is the end of one era and beginning of an entirely new one. This coming era of nanotehcnology and applications will become ever more numerous as the shrink drive has shown the abiltiy to rapidly increase performance, versatility of devices at a dramatic rate, all the while reducing costs. MEMS are still just in their very infancy and will become as widespread as semis are now. Everything will change to keep up, from financial, social, political, educational and business structures in ways that haven't even been imagined yet. We are just beginning to see the very tip of the opportunities this presents in literally everything in our lives. Robotics and automation of everything will come on with a speed unrivaled by all previous advances combined. With 300,000 researchers on AI/ML alone, this is the greatest amount of resources ever committed to a single, broad endeavor. Not only that, these researchers have untold access to computer power, information, collaboration, instrumentation and raw data on a scale never even imagined and all these factors are advancing at an ever increasing speed. All this is leading up to the "The Great Acceleration" and the unknown frontiers before us. No one can predict the future this is going to bring, only educated guesses, most of which will be wrong.