July 1st in General by Jeremy .

TWiT: Jerry Pournelle on Future Computing Opportunities

Within 3 years we’re gonna have 64-core computers… We’re gonna have computers that have what amounts to infinite computing power, infinite memory, and infinite mass-storage.  And we have got software that can’t strain what we have now.  The people that are gonna make money are the ones who are gonna figure out how a guy who knows how to do something useful, and doesn’t care about computer science, can sit down and teach the damn machine to do something useful [...]

Within 3 years we’re gonna have 64-core computers… We’re gonna have computers that have what amounts to infinite computing power, infinite memory, and infinite mass-storage.  And we have got software that can’t strain what we have now.  The people that are gonna make money are the ones who are gonna figure out how a guy who knows how to do something useful, and doesn’t care about computer science, can sit down and teach the damn machine to do something useful without having to spend 4 years learning to program.

–Jerry Pournelle on TWiT Episode 149 @ 1:01:20

[It'll] never happen, Jerry.  You’re living in a dream world.

–John C. Dvorak

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