I was invited to give a talk at The Computer Club of the Senior Studies Institute at Strathclyde. They thought that The Ubiquitous Chip I gave in December last year would be an appropriate topic so I repurposed that content! It seemed to go well. It was nice for a change to be talking to a room full of people who thought I was young ;-)

My favourite bits from the talk were the predictions I had dug out. For example:

Patterson's Predictions

...It is plausible that we will see improvements in the next 25 years at least as large as those seen in the past 50. This estimate means that one desktop computer in 2020 will be as powerful as all the computers in Silicon Valley today...

...Specialised [low cost] information devices... will be scattered around the home and office and connected via a mobile phone network while travelling... The PC will have to be replaced by devices that are considerably simpler to use... Perhaps one of the striking aspects of the next decade will be that the growth of the personal computer will be checked, and a whole range of other devices will be adopted.

This was the first talk for the Computer Club and we joked at the start that I was setting the standard by which the others would be judged. So they should be in for some really excellent talks ;-). Several digital photos were taken so I'll link to these once they're up on the SSI web-site.