Re: How to make money fast (in science fiction)

On 2008-04-02, Chuk Goodin <cgoodin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> One thing I wonder about is if there's some kind of limit to
> this. As computers keep on getting faster and more powerful, will
> software bloat continue to rise at the same pace?

Yes, I expect so.  The degree of bloat and sluggishness is dictated by
user tolerance levels.


> It'd be nice if computers got so fast they could run any human-coded
> software "fast enough".

Impossible.  For any amount of processing power there are tasks that
will require more.  I have certainly thought up simple algorithms that
would be useful if only I had a machine that could process on the
order of 10^200 instructions per second (give or take a factor of a
quadrillion or so).


- Tim