Rodolfo Rosini on 2040: cheap compute everywhere, devices jumping orders of magnitude
MikePFrank · x · 2026-10-13
Mike Frank shares the four-part Anglofuturism conversation with Rodolfo Rosini tracing computing from room-sized machines to PCs and phones: every drop in running cost jumps device counts by orders of magnitude. By 2040, he suggests, today's fastest supercomputer might not need a battery — just a capacitor fed by light, heat, or motion — and someone will always find uses for cheap compute, from Spacewar to Minecraft-hallucinating AI to a chip in every robot finger.
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