Future Computing Quotes

I think it's fair to say that the age of traditional computing is dead.

The Internet of things will augment your brain.

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

Post-human intelligence will develop hypercomputers with the processing power to simulate living things - even entire worlds. Perhaps advanced beings could use hypercomputers to surpass the best 'special effects' in movies or computer games so vastly that they could simulate a world, fully, as complex as the one we perceive ourselves to be in.

If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.

The iPad is the clearest expression of our vision of the future of personal computing.

If you believe that the mobile phone is the next supercomputer, which I do, you can imagine a datacenter that is modeled after, literally, hundreds or thousands or millions of mobile phones. They won't have screens on them, but there'll be millions of lightweight mobile-phone processors in the datacenter.

Traditional computing is always going to be a part of AMD's business, but our technology can go further.

Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best day is unable to defeat the best computer.

You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

Those with engineering skills will build tomorrow's genius computers. But those with the ability to create knowledge of any kind will be the ones who are best able to extract great value from them. The way to create value in the age of genius machines will be to compile and disseminate knowledge that other people will find useful.

Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.

I just think that VR and AR are going to be a really big deal.

VR as a display technology, as it's miniaturized and made comfortable and mainstream, will be a replacement for all other forms of display technology, input and output. So for anybody who works with computers all day, this is going to be our future.

Future is mobile computing - smartphones and tablets are just elements of it. The industry is on the verge of a whole new paradigm.

It is easy to predict that some of the discoveries of research directed towards Grand Challenges - but only the most unexpected ones, and at the most unexpected times - will be the basis of revolutionary improvements in the way that we exploit the power of our future computing devices.

We believe the future of computing should be natural.

We want a Gateway to be the last computer our clients will ever buy.

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.

By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our clothing, providing full-immersion visual virtual reality.

We are looking for an era where computing will actually merge with the physical world.

People in the industry foresee a time in which, for many people, the only thing they'll need on a computer is a browser.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

We can write, debug, and perfect quantum programs that not only cannot be run today, but might not be able to be run for a decade or more. The fact that Microsoft has invested substantial resources in a new language, and many programmers will actually write programs in that language that cannot now be run, is an indication of the enormous theoretical potential of quantum computing and the faith that someone soon will find a way to construct a large scale quantum computer. This is the future of computing, and Microsoft has given new meaning to the phrase "getting ahead of the curve."

I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.