Wes in yr blud an konnecting yr brain to da Matrix.

The perfect Friday Lunchtime blogpost topic - white corpuscle sized computers in your bloodstream, courtesy of Ray Kurzweil and the BBC

Exponential growth in processing power and the shrinking of technology would see the development of microscopic computers, he said.
"We will see a billion-fold increase in the price-performance of computers in the next 25 years," he said.

and a few seconds later....

Mr Kurzweil said it was possible to accurately predict the growth and change in computing power by looking at how it had developed over the last 50 years. "There will be a 100,000-fold shrinking of computer technology over the next 25 years," he said.

Wow...accurate predictions of the industry, a 100,000 fold shrinking of the technology and a billion-fold increase in price/performance over the next 25 years - whats not to like!

Except.....I recall combining a laptop cum WiFi cum mobile device 10 years ago, and using Moore's law etc we confidently predicted the iPhone by 2004 for $250. Unfortunately industry structural barriers etc meant it didn't turn out that way - we got the iPaQ at $450m sans mobile instead.

Using Moore's Law's doubling every 18 months we can predict that the price performance in 25 years, and the likely size, will be c 1/200th of what it is now, and I can "get" that if we use devices that are really boned down we may get as far as maybe as much as another 1/100th shift - but b*gger me if I can find the logic for all those other thousands of times reductions.

It is my wont, when faced with stuff I don't believe, to translate it into LoLCat, as I find it makes more sense that way

"today u can put pea-sized computa inside ur brain... if u has parkinson disease n want 2 replace biological neuronz that wuz destroyed by disease."

he sed zilian-fold increase in computin performance n capabilitee ova next 25 year coupled wit 100...000 fold shrinkin... would lead 2 "blood cell-size devicez... that can go inside our bodiez n keep us healthy n inside our brain n expand our intelligence".

he sed blood cell computa would b able 2 "produce full immersion virtual realitee frm inside nervous system".

See...it makes perfect sense now

Lolcats iz in yr Matrix n pluggin into yr Brain............................