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WCDT: 2001-2005 (29 Aug-2 Sept 2011)

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jwhouk:
That's another big issue: how in the world do APC's manage to keep moving with the (relatively) limited battery power they have?

I mean, if a Tesla Roadster can only go 220 miles or so before it has to recharge - and it has the battery array roughly 27 square meters, or about the size of a couch - how in the heck could something as small as even Pintsize manage to keep moving on battery power and still have enough room to hold the memory that a theoretical AI would need to operate? And that's not even anything to consider cooling mechanisms or just basic "walking" capabilities.

Carl-E:
Clearly many technological breakthroughs have been made. 

Probably by John Ellicott-Chatham...

jwhouk:
Like Mr. Fusion?

Cornan:
It wouldn't take a revolution in power creation such as fusion. It would, as you noted, take a storage breakthrough to make AnthroPCs and their ilk work as presented. While we are faced with a severe limit to storage capability in our world now we've also been putting relatively little R&D funding towards battery technology until the fairly recent past. It's entirely possible that some of the breakthroughs in the QCverse that lead to AI could also have resulted in ancillary discoveries that contributed to better energy storage techniques. The materials research that would have had to go into their CPUs alone could have yielded up some pretty tidbits that would apply directly to materials used in advanced batteries for energy storage.

At least, that's how I handwavium it away for myself. ;)

jwhouk:
True - one of the theories as to how things developed so fast could be that the AI's spent so much time thinking about it that they came up with solutions faster than we could put them together.

I'd still like to see some sort of BananaPC-like "ORPHANED!" scenario come about, though. If only for the Lulz.

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