It's easy to assume things will keep
progressing forward with technology in our society. We might envision
robots everywhere, virtual reality integrated into daily life,
frequent travel into space with colonies on other planets, and we
even fear artificial intelligence becoming a threat to humankind. Yet
all of this relies on something that we're totally taking for
granted—energy. We may have the energy to support our technologies
now, and we always have before, so why wouldn't it be the same a few
decades from now? Tech experts from the Semiconductor Industry
Association are predicting a very different scenario. By the year
2040, these experts claim that computers will use more electricity
than the entire world can generate. Computers are tied into
everything, but what if we no longer have the power to keep these
systems running, and some of these are systems we need to keep us
alive!
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