What cyberpunk tech would you use a room-temperature superconductor for? (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by smeg@feddit.uk to c/cyberpunk@lemmy.ml

7 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Room-temperature superconductivity looks like it might be a step closer to becoming a reality. Let's stick with fiction for the moment though, what technology would you put in a cyberpunk world that makes use of zero-resistance electronics without the need for massive cooling? Super-fast computers? Super-powerful magnets? Maglev? Railguns?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] BitSound@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Chips that enable better-than-GPT4 performance with the form factor and power usage of a thumb drive. Within the realm of plausible sci-fi, and pretty dangerous from an IT perspective. Any one of your employees could find a thumb drove in the parking lot, plug it into their computer, and then your super secure air-gapped network has an adversary on the inside.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

When most of the big computing power has been outsourced to the corps' cloud computers, this could power the cyberdecks that the hackers can use to do their work unmonitored

this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023

10 points (100.0% liked)

Cyberpunk

1519 readers

1 users here now

A transhumanistic edge of society in dystopia. Daily life has been impacted by rapid technological takeover.

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

cyberpunk@lemmy.ml