http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/may/12/future-
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Posted On: 05/12/2014 8:12:28 PM
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/may/12/fu...omm-execs/
Best part at the bottom LOL talk to me baby.
Andrew Viterbi, co-founder and former longtime chief technology officer of Qualcomm, the giant San Diego company that creates the guts of the world’s cellphones, devised the Viterbi Algorithm, a mathematical formula for separating signal from noise. The Viterbi Algorithm has made cellphone communication possible, as well as the tracking of missiles, and even high-speed DNA analysis.
In the boardroom of his offices at Viterbi Group, he spoke to the U-T recently about the future of technology:
Q: What might the world of technology look like in 20 years?
A: My answer is very simple: look back 20 years. The year the Internet opened up was 1994, probably the second most important event in digital communications, after the transistor, and that was 1948. So 20 years ago, who would've thought we would have a Facebook?
The first question to ask is whether Moore's Law, the speed of chips, will continue to double every 18 months? I don't know. Economics could stop it. Foundries cost $10 billion now, when 10 years ago $1 billion was the norm. Whose got that kind of money? Google does. The Taiwanese, the Koreans do.
But if you can do the speed — and maybe we will double every four years, rather than two — and do it at reasonable cost, then who knows what new things are possible? Virtual reality — Oculus — is becoming a consumer product. Your refrigerator is going to be talking to the supermarket, and they’ll send over a drone with your groceries. We’ll have “the Internet of all things.”
Best part at the bottom LOL talk to me baby.
Andrew Viterbi, co-founder and former longtime chief technology officer of Qualcomm, the giant San Diego company that creates the guts of the world’s cellphones, devised the Viterbi Algorithm, a mathematical formula for separating signal from noise. The Viterbi Algorithm has made cellphone communication possible, as well as the tracking of missiles, and even high-speed DNA analysis.
In the boardroom of his offices at Viterbi Group, he spoke to the U-T recently about the future of technology:
Q: What might the world of technology look like in 20 years?
A: My answer is very simple: look back 20 years. The year the Internet opened up was 1994, probably the second most important event in digital communications, after the transistor, and that was 1948. So 20 years ago, who would've thought we would have a Facebook?
The first question to ask is whether Moore's Law, the speed of chips, will continue to double every 18 months? I don't know. Economics could stop it. Foundries cost $10 billion now, when 10 years ago $1 billion was the norm. Whose got that kind of money? Google does. The Taiwanese, the Koreans do.
But if you can do the speed — and maybe we will double every four years, rather than two — and do it at reasonable cost, then who knows what new things are possible? Virtual reality — Oculus — is becoming a consumer product. Your refrigerator is going to be talking to the supermarket, and they’ll send over a drone with your groceries. We’ll have “the Internet of all things.”
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