First. Ok you people have won me over :) I guess I was just in a down mood. I'm looking forward to the tools we will have at our disposal. Maybe we will be able to create our own beautiful worlds in which people can walk in realtime :) offtopic: "either that or someone will need to find a way to exceed the speed of light. ...And yes, I know they already have, but I mean within the architecture of a computer." --- I don't think they have exceded the speed of light. Wouldn't that mean that our understandig of physics would be totally flawed? I know they have been transferring signals faster than light but that's possible due to some complex form of wave interference (or something like that). "I can't wait to see what will exsist in 5 years. Intel hopes that in 3 to 6 months from now you will be able to buy (with a lot of money) their Pentium 4ghz. How fast will a cpu be in 5 years?" Well probably around 30Ghz (if computing power doubles every 18 months as it has done in the past)