/sci/ - Science & Math

Here's my take on the future:

1. The computer industry will decline within the next few decades, and will reach a virtual stand-still since we'll be at the point where it's necessary to store information using atoms (quantum computing).

Quantum computing is a whole different ball park from normal computing; we'll have to build a new field of computer from the ground up.

In the mean time, the global economy will collapse in on itself due to
1. peak oil
2. no one buys computers anymore once silicon based tech reaches a stand still
3. technological unemployment leads to a majority of unemployment

The way I see it..the death of the modern economic era has already been spelled out.

These next generations, then, will see to it that physics / mathematics are the master fields which allow us to advance the most.

Everything is physics; all physics is described by math; thus as our understanding of physical law / our ability to apply it to quantum technologies embellishes, physicists and mathematicians will be the ones who create the computers, come up with the solutions which biologists, psychologists, etc and everyone will finally understand how full of bullshit they all were.

So rl;dr let's all major in either math or physics
Thoughts everyone?

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