The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles. While financial cycle depend on markets that tend to fluctuate unpredictably and sometimes wildly, the product cycle gets relatively little attention, even though it is what actually drives the computing industry forward. This article is trying to understand and predict the product cycle by studying the past and extrapolating into the future, offering some interesting points. https://medium.com/software-is-eating-the-world/what-s-next-in-computing-e54b870b80cc#.dx22dovd4
Anirban Bandyopadhay, following the footsteps of the work done by Penrose and Hameroff, is trying to build a new kind of "quantum based computing" with the help of microtubules.
After and if society completely collapses, counting on the fingers (and toes for the more advance people) Some very primative people had only four named nubers, which translate into English as: one, two, three, many. For them 5 did equal 6 as both were "many."
