Regarding forward shots and villas in the historic center where you live well, reading here and there (a bit casually) I thought I could add an element that I was missing to something that I already knew for a long time and that surely everyone they know in general how it was for me. In practice, the fundamental and new element that I read is that it seems that (source MIT) the marketing of processors with silicene and graphene technology is possible in a couple of years.
If this is really the case (I have always considered that they were on the threshold of science fiction, instead two years are like tomorrow) we can say that we are on the threshold of a transition comparable with what occurred in the transition from vacuum tubes to semiconductor junctions. An event that would decay all current discussions on nanometers, efficiency and architecture at the level of small skirmishes with poor perspective vision.
This provides food for thought on the fact that those who can afford a villa in the historic center, maybe even allow themselves to study in the best universities where the real future is looked at with more practical and concrete attention and the present is looked at with a more top to bottom and perhaps presents problems in which, having a more concrete consideration of the "near" future, it is not convenient to get involved and spend resources.
Who knows if there is not a keen eye from the villa in the center to the chasing group, where the numbers are large, rather than at the head of the race where there are always few if not alone and at the same time a concrete job of athletic preparation for the predominance in the race of the "imminent" season up?
After all, it is not a race in which the winner comes first, but who takes the scepter of the "standard" and therefore on the threshold of the finish line you can also decide to pass ahead those who can not take more detachment and get to the "standard" anyway .
If that imminent is the truth, the key to deciphering everything is different ...
Before anyone thinks I'm cheering for Intel, I admit that this is a very imaginative view of a scenario and that it has a degree of probability of being real in single-digit percentages, because technologically a similar jump would require an adjustment of all the hardware based on current materials, but since we have seen AMD consumer processors born and we have seen them grow exponentially in just three years to get where they are now (although it should not make much sense, given the "decadence" of architecture and this it makes one think about how real that decline is), everything can be expected, including the achievement of the "standard" by efficient architectures for a short time before the advent of the radical change mentioned above with the consequent further revolution.
By now they have become so fast that despite being giants it seems that they are small prototyping companies.