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According to NIST, the current crypto is expected to remain secure until 2030 ... but that could change rapidly if quantum computer advances faster than expected. The following article lays out an important development:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/news/computers_math/encryption/
Even though this work is still in its nascent stages, today's technological developments move very rapidly. It is estimated that in just the next year, technology will make as much progress as was accomplished in the prior decade! And the same for the next year, and the next ... so effectively, by 2030, we will exceed a century worth of progress. So, it is important to understand that while we are learning about current public key technology, we keep an eye out for the advances which may make it obsolete.
Can you think of other things in your lifetime which have become obsolete due to technology?
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We are in 2017 and the technological inventions are growing exponentially. If we were to discuss things that have gone obsolete over the past few years, it would need more than a few paragraphs. So I would like to discuss only those inventions that have been close to me.
The first thing that comes to mind are the floppies and CDs that you can’t see anymore. We are moving to a digital world and gone are the days when we used to carry close to a megabyte i.e 1mb of data worth in a floppy disk. The CDs which were a thing in the 90s, are not even found anymore in stationeries and tech marts. Now we have Terabytes worth of hard drives and slowly and steadily even they are expected to be replaced by cloud storage. The wave of technology apparently can never be suppressed and one thing keeps replacing the other.
The standalone radio players and cassettes have gone extinct as well. Owning a radio was considered a rare thing back in the past. Today, even your grand pa probably plays music on his phone. The cell phone alone has replaced a whole lot of inventions due to its compact size and surpassing ability to do versatile things. The cellphone can tell you your location, you don’t use hard maps any more. Similarly, it can store over thousands of contacts, you don’t have phone dictionaries/diaries and the yellow pages. That’s just a handful of things that the cell phone has made obsolete in this past decade,
In conclusion, I would like to say that as long as there are humans, there are going to be advancements in technology and new technology is going to make old technology less useful or even obsolete with time. As it is rightly said, "Change is the only constant".
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