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The Infinity Machine
xploration of a fantasy world by Simon Tatham The Infinity Machine is an extended speculation. Based on an idea I got from a book I read once, and refined over many years of idle moments, it tries to imagine what the field of computing would be like if computers were able to run infinitely fast.
It doesn't explore the social consequences of the premise, merely the technical implications for computer architecture, operating system and compiler design, networking, and cryptography. I believe even an Infinity Machine cannot invert this function, because taking into account any finite subset of the output bits does not narrow down the possible inputs to the point where they cease to be uncountable. It still contains unanswered questions, such as whether it would be possible to contrive any scheme of asymmetric cryptography to replace the various finite public-key systems that the Machine renders obsolete.
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