Your dream computer...

[MaC hAcKeR]

Originally posted by Perseus
I would like a Performa 550 with 4 megs of RAM and CD ROM drive and a 68030 processor, that would be awesome!!!!!!!!!!!

I just happen to have one of thosse!

[Giaguara]

I want a mac that is connected to my mind, is a lot faster and more reliable than my brain, uses sun for enegy (no electricity), allows me to type and save my thoughts and dreams and save them also in quicktime ... and wieghts nothing and allows me to browse, email etc with my mind, connect my mind to tv etc to show the others what i see, think etc ... and going to a dvd store i could browse (and copy) the dvd only using my brain ... that would customly not use any interface at all and that would have applescripts to make me control it with my mind ... and that has a global (everywhere on the earth working) surfing, calling etc capacity and in-my-body inserted chip that works as kind of airport card and that makes me connect to my home mac where ever i am on hte earth ... typing with my mind and with a wireless keyboard, scanning with my eyes with endless zoom, skecthes saving the visualisations of the mind as jpg or bmp or tiff and working them on photoshop using plain mind after .... and i'll be able to be unreachable with an 'invisible' command to every computer and router anywhere in the universe.

[Arden]

I want one of the computers that controls cruise missiles, so I can land one in chemistry_geek's backyard.

Ha ha, just kidding, I still love you CG, you're 100% right, as often.

I want a computer like that commercial a few years back, where the guy is talking into a microphone with the eyepiece, and the pigeons are flying all around him... except it would be able to detect my hand motions, so I could control it by manipulating, basically, nothing.

I've thought about the computers like what MH described before, and in retrospect, they won't do much unless you can really take advantage of them. Imagine a Lightwave that can render a 3D feature film (sans sound, of course) in realtime, with photographic quality. It would take state-of-the-art hardware, but it would be state-of-the-art software. Hardware and software each work to push the other's envelopes to the edge, so to really innovate, you have to come up with something completely new, like a portable computer. Or a handheld. Or wireless input. Or wireless networking. Or holography. Or a neural interface. The possibilities are endless, as long as there are people crazy and stupid enough to stumble upon the next "big thing." Simply improving the current lot of computography (take that, Merriam!), like a "brand new" G5 processor, is exciting in the short run, but it really does nothing for the future of computing.

Wow, that's a lot more than I expected to write! Hopefully the rest of you can come up with some more insight like that.