Nintendo Harbinger: No, It's Not a Game

20x more efficient than the 1989 Game Boy

I have a Nintendo Gameboy stored somewhere, but not like this one: [bold added]

Custom designed to run entirely without batteries, the hand-held gaming device is powered by small solar panels as well as the button presses of the person playing it...

The implications of this demonstration are potentially huge, and not just for videogame junkies. In our battery-free future, carbon, moisture and light sensors that last for decades could be scattered by drones across farms.

Smart cities might be inundated with all-seeing, all-hearing surveillance devices; vehicles and buildings will use artificial intelligence to anticipate needs and perform simple tasks; and “implantables” in our bodies will more tightly integrate humans with everything else connected to the internet...

It’s this combination of traits—never needing to reboot, using very little power, and harvesting energy from the environment—that yields a system that could be a “perpetual” computer.

Devices that are so energy-efficient that they won't need batteries, that possess intelligence that already surpasses human beings', that can reproduce (much as software can write other software) and "teach" their offspring--it's a wonderful world that's approaching (/sarc).

Silicon Valley guru and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang "has predicted this future of computing will eventually include trillions of devices." Oh, joy.

The Luddites may have been mocked for centuries, but this is their moment.