What is new and exciting in computing?

I heard about something where you can contact anyone in the world, literally, some sort of inter-whada or something. Seems neato but I think all the computers might join together and try to kill us. As for now I’m off the to shop to get a chocolate malt and then head off to the roller rink

It’s all about the cloud right now. Think Iron Age mainframe punted ferociously into the future, where the mainframe is a server farm and the terminals are all PCs.
There’s talk of a new system for IP addresses, since we’re due to run out soon.
And a little while back, the bleeding edge had caught on a sort of super internet, that would be faster, better, stronger, and highly fiber-optic; word was that the ‘tubes would be big enough to dump the complete works of the Rolling Stones on a machine on the other side of the world in a matter of seconds.
Hardware specs are improving at an alarmingly steady rate. There is a theoretical upper limit to how much data we can store on itty bitty chips, but we’re not there yet. Not really news, but there ya have it.

Quantum computing

Biological computing

How theoretical/practical?

Social networking and smartphone apps are where all the buzz is right now. Also, faster processing, AI and cloud computing.

Artificial Invention

Circles.