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Producing nanotubes is too complicated and error-prone to be In 2020, Intel released a new server based on neuromorphic chips
commercially viable. But in 2019, a process for creating a 16-bit with the same neural capacity as a small mammal’s brain.
carbon nanotube microprocessor was developed. It successfully International researchers have already linked artificial and
executed a set of commands that printed the message, “Hello, biological neurons to communicate like a biological nervous
World!” It removed limitations and complications in nanotubes, system based on internet protocols.
making them accessible to factories in less than five (5) years.
5. Optical Computing Collapse OS: Operating System After the World Ends
It uses photons by mapping data onto light-intensity levels and
then changing the light intensity to perform calculations allowing A programmer has decided that creating a versatile and survivable
optical computing at the nanoscale possible at the speed of light. operating system is as important as stocking food and other living
Although still in an early development phase, this could enable essentials after a societal collapse. This operating system is called
high-efficiency and low-power processing data transmission Collapse OS.
Optical computers may use fiber-optic cables, optical chips, or It is an open-source operating system made explicitly once the worse
wireless optical networks to process and transmit data. has happened on Earth. According to Virgil Dupras, a software
developer, people will need Collapse OS to reconfigure their damaged
6. Distributed Computing smartphones.
The current peak of this model is the Folding@home which
models protein molecules to discover cures for serious diseases Creation
such as Alzheimer’s, cancer, and COVID-19.
In 2019, Dupras envisioned the collapse of the global supply chain by
The project has amassed nearly 750,000 participants with a 2030, where populations will not be able to produce electronics
collective of 1.5 exaflops of power, allowing quintillion calculations anymore. He predicts that political and social power remains and that
per second. It has 75% of the projected speed of the El Capitan anyone who can scavenge electronic devices will have huge
supercomputer, which will be deemed the world’s fastest advantages.
supercomputer by 2023.
Features and Functions
The future of computing will be shaped by transistors made
from materials other than silicon amplified by approaches unrelated to Collapse OS will run on Z80 8-bit microprocessors. Z80 8-bit are found
transistor speed, such as deep-learning software and the ability to in desktop computers, cash registers, and graphing calculators,
crowdsource excess computing power to create supercomputers. though less common today than 16- and 32-bit components.
All the technology and innovations for the future mentioned may even Collapse OS will allow the following:
redefine computing itself as we know it. • Run on minimal and improvised machines.
• Interface through improvised means like a keyboard and display.
• Compile assembler source files
• Read and write from a range of storage devices.
• Edit text files.
• Replicate itself.
Conclusion
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