From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Mon Dec 13 1999 - 15:08:05 MST
I think networks will be getting dumber, and more orthogonal. There
will be little, if any, subvertable resources in them. You can't
subvert a hardwired optical switch very much. The nodes will be
getting fatter and smarter, though. That's where the action will be.
Still, you need a lot of generations up the linear log plot before you
can have a god budding in your network without you noticing any
significant performance degradation. I would say a Blue Gene
equivalent in every game console would qualify for a supercritical
broth, maybe slightly less. (Which will probably need 2 1/2 d
molecular switches, if I come to think of it).
Once we're there I would tread very, very carefully: extinction alert.
Ken Clements writes:
> What we were thinking about was not desktop-sized, but rather would emerge as a
> distributed intelligence where the processing power in each router was something like a
> small cluster of neurons. As you say, the infrastructure of the net is going optical,
> which is just another example of the building of processing speed, which extends the
> upper limit on how smart this could be.
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