Re: [silk] Charlie Stross keynote on gaming in 2030

2009-05-27 Thread Casey O'Donnell
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:56 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > In the medium term (by which I mean 5-15 years) we're going to reach the > end of the exponential curve of increasing processing power that Gordon > Moore noticed back in the late 1960s. Atoms are on the order of one > nanometre in size; it

Re: [silk] Charlie Stross keynote on gaming in 2030

2009-05-26 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Bruce Metcalf wrote: >> We can also give our glasses digital >> zoom, wider viewing angles, and low light sensitivity! Not to mention >> overlaying our surroundings with a moving map display if we're >> driving. All great stuff, except for the little problem of s

Re: [silk] Charlie Stross keynote on gaming in 2030

2009-05-26 Thread Bruce Metcalf
Udhay Shankar N wrote: Yet another prediction of the Death Of Moore's Law. But also interesting on a number of other levels, not least expansion of some of the thought threads that led to _Halting State_. Udhay http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/05/login_2009_keynote_gaming_in_t.

Re: [silk] Charlie Stross keynote on gaming in 2030

2009-05-21 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Yet another prediction of the Death Of Moore's Law. But also interesting > on a number of other levels, not least expansion of some of the thought > threads that led to _Halting State_. Which [1], by the way, is highly recommended [2]. U

[silk] Charlie Stross keynote on gaming in 2030

2009-05-21 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Yet another prediction of the Death Of Moore's Law. But also interesting on a number of other levels, not least expansion of some of the thought threads that led to _Halting State_. Udhay http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/05/login_2009_keynote_gaming_in_t.html LOGIN 2009 keynote: