&gt; There is not a single person alive today who knows what technology will look like in 10 years<p>Agreed, nobody knows what&#x27;s going to happen in the future, however...<p>&gt;Computing is still in its infancy. A computer from the future - if they are even called that anymore - may be directly comparable to what we have today. Or the technology may change so much that the two devices are not even recognizable as being related.<p>... you should remember that &#x27;nobody&#x27; also includes you. For computers to keep getting faster we&#x27;d need something faster than a MOSFET to build our computers on.<p>The fact that it hasn&#x27;t been discovered in 90 years doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s not going to be discovered ever, but it also doesn&#x27;t mean it&#x27;s bound to be discovered soon because of the unstoppable kurtzweilian march of progress.<p>Since we can&#x27;t predict future discoveries because of the law of total expectations the best we can do is try to describe what the future looks like from here.