Who doesn't dream about quicker computers? I guess no one as everyone knows the feeling then program is opening for 5 minutes, sometimes even 15 or longer. I guess we can say a huge step is already made as our clocks are much quicker than first computers of the size of a room. Faster and faster computers are made which already overcomes 10 petaflops (10^(16) floating point calculations) whereas average computer runs at less than 5 GFlops (5*10^(9) Flops). But this is still not enough. Would you like what no operation take more than a millisecond? All files would open quicker than a second? All this may be achieved in coming years as king of electronics, graphene, is being dethroned by silicene (one atom thickness, two dimensional allotrope of silicon). As it will be easier to integrate into current equipment and should be available in the market faster than graphene devices. But this is not enough as engineers from University of Toronto found a way how to create photon pairs using an integrated circuit. This leads to the solution to numerous problems as photons not only travel at speed of light but also allows using more advanced algorithms. The future belongs to optical computers as they would be not only quicker but would use less energy, make less noise, last longer and generate less heat. Nowadays heat is also a very limiting characteristic as cooling systems do not allow reducing size of devices. I am already waiting for my laptop to be much quicker than world's fastest supercomputer δΊ¬ built in Japan.
Links to sources: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21428625.400-move-over-graphene-silicene-is-the-new-star-material.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/uotf-rbt043012.php
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