Predictions made in the year 2000...

[Inv3rted]

...tend to be overoptimistic.

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/intel-predicts-10ghz-chips-by-2011-20000726/

Read the comments especially.

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[Xiofxic]

Nerds predict nerdy thing that doesn't happen. News at eleven.

[Inv3rted]

Also, out of every comment I've read, only one guy made an accurate prediction:

One word my friends: distributed clock architecture. Instead of having one central clock, which limits the speed of all the components, you have clocks throughout the chip. Much as I detest the PowerPC architecture, IBM has got a PowerPC chip running at 4.5 Ghz equivalent in the lab with this new technique.

[Daedalus]

Think BIG. (3:32pm EST Wed Jul 26 2000)
Hopefully, by 2011, we won't even NEED ports on our machines… everything should be wireless. Wireless keyboards, mice, printers are all common today; imagine 2011. Wireless video and chips that use so little power that you can power a whole PC with 2 AAA batteries for months.
Also with technology like LEP at our fingertips, imagine printing a display on a sheet of (polymer)paper and circuits on the back side of that sheet. You'll have an interactive sheet of paper that can be minipulated with input or just have it hold a lot of information. Either way, I doubt we'll be using clunky beige boxes on our desks for things like email and web browsing. - by Big Picture

*sigh* The comments are handicapped.

[Inv3rted]

Holy stuff, the comments are from 2000 to 2006.

:o

[Ethan]

Quick! Let's go back in time and warn them of 9/11~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[Inv3rted]

Quick! Let's go back in time and warn them of 9/11~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Tell them not to invade Iraq and invest in Enron while you're at it.

[Ladios]

Why predict so far… (3:00pm EST Wed Jul 26 2000)
Why predict so far in the future… They never predict things like this right… This is totally bogus - by Anon

Only sensible thing I saw in the comments I read.

[Gamefandan]

IN 2006 THE WORLD WILL END!