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**The Extinct CPU** 
 
 *7:13 AM 11/15/2015* 
 
 We're near the end of Moore's Law. Did you notice? Microprocessors once doubled in speed every few years. Desktop computers certainly have n't kept up that rate, although GPU advancements have been steady. The caveat has been the limits of miniaturization in physics: the elements' limit is the atom. There is no way to manufacture CPU's or GPU's smaller than a certain size. A paradigm shift in processing must be made to continue Moore's Law, but it's an likely scenario while innovation struggles to beat natural mechanical laws. 
 
 The amount of processing power available to electronics consumers is surprisingly low. There are some industrial applications for high-end computation, but the consumer needs very little. If the need is for data processing, commercial cloud computing is a better option than a desktop computer. For video games and video editing, cheap GPU's easily keep up with graphical technology. Now, N64 games can play on almost any smartphone. Not to mention that movies have reached their Planck limit of display technology. 3D Ultra High Def IMAX movies ( like the second `` The Hobbit'' movie ) can be so real it's uncomfortable. Entertainment has n't found an application for serious processing speed increases. For anyone who's tried their hand at large data processing at home, the desktop computer is a weakling child. Although we've advanced at the rate predicted by Moore's Law for a few decades, the average desktop computer takes days or weeks to process many large text files, such as the complete Wikipedia e-Text ( depending on the application ). While we've been increasing at the huge rate expected by Moore's Law, we have n't developed a computer with the processing power of a single human brain. If we find some new way to compute, Moore's Law will invariably be ruled out. Either the technology will continue to improve, albeit at a slower rate, or the technology will reach a singularity where improvement is impossibly hard to calculate. 
 
 Moore's Law seems to only apply to the Standard Model of Physics. The quantum model of processing power could be much different. Quantum computers use vastly more bits in their computing. Bits increase at a faster rate than standard processers as the processing grows in size. Mysteriously, quantum computers derive their extra processing speed from alternate universes. The `` qbit'' or quantum bit conveys information from different states of the processor in different universes than our own. Or such is the theory. Quantum computers work in practice. The models of quantum physics may be the future of computing. Quantum programs will be vastly different, however, meaning the Information Age will take a new form. No longer will video games need to be played on GPU's, or movies and data processed by standard processors. Instead, the vast power of quantum computing will open up a world of new possibilities. That's exactly what it's supposed to do. 
 
 Quantum computing is a lot faster way to compute, but more importantly it's a much different one. We do n't fully understand exactly how quantum bits work. I propose there is a wild card to quantum computing that will outplay Moore's Law, making processing speed meaningless and the awesome hope of faster and faster computers dim. As consumers, our ability to understand and utilize the power of quantum computers will be limited. I believe quantum computers will change society, but not the same way standard processors did by making large tasks much easier and automatic. 
 
 Instead, humanity will find a dark liberation in the age of quantum computing. Since anything is possible, anything will happen. Why should n't our ability to peek into new universes in order to compute allow us to reach into new universes in order to communicate? We could meet a stronger version of humanity in another universe. We could be attacked by alternate humanities who do not appreciate us. After all, other universes can tap into our universe, too, where humans dwell in a fragile ecosystem freshly inducted into the Quantum Age. Once we open the multiverse, Moore's Law wo n't matter. Only the violent whims of human desire will guide us. 
 
 We wo n't upgrade our desktops every few years. Once we dip into quantum computing, there will be no more upgrades. 
 
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 I hope you liked it. This is what's on my mind this morning 

