Do you think the speed of computers would ever reach a limit like the internet did?

Just as copper telephone wires severely limit the speed of our internet, we now need fiber optic cables made of glass so that we can download files faster. Would it be the same for computers? Would we need to switch to a different material to speed up computers? and what happens when that material gets too slow and it is the best and fastest material for building computers known to man? will we be held back by the slow speed of those computers?

Do you think the speed of computers would ever reach a limit like the internet did?house call

Not really. As with any form of technology, when one reaches it's limit another one comes along to take it to the next higher level.

What will eventually happen though is that people will not have the need for the higher speeds that the PC's will offer.

Back when I first started computing the fastest PC on the market was the IBM PC-XT. It ran at a ''blazing'' speed of 4.77 MHz. (That's Megahertz not gigahertz). There was plenty of room for improvement.

As computer applications became more and more graphic intensive, the need for a faster computer to run them on became more of a necessity than a luxury.

Now we are in the age of digital media, video games, high end CAD programs and digital photography, all of which increase the requirements of computing power. However, eventually we will reach a time where the average PC user is going to decide that their system is running fast enough. They will ask themselves ''do I really need the screen redrawn in .25 seconds or is .5 seconds fast enough?''