IBM Seeks to Build the Computer of the Future Based on Insights from the Brain

I think I will just stick to mouse and keyboard

You can make fusion reactions in a desktop device called a Farnsworth Fusor.
Getting fusion is easy getting break even in controlled fusion is what is difficult.
JET comes close to break even ITAR is supposed to achieve several times break even.

They'll have to get beyond what we know as computers today before they can make a self aware computer.
It took around 20,000 processors to simulate 10,000 neurons or a single neocortical column in a rat's brain.
A human brain has 100 billion neurons.
IBM does not have to money to make the thing It's going to need to be a very complex quantum computer or atleast have qbit elements to be fully accurate.
Building the machine would cost more then NASA's moon base.

Those 20,000 processors where normal processors running software that simulate neurons. What Facets or IBM are trying to do is build processors that simulate neurons on the hardware level.

If we could see a future computer from the year 2050, we would truly be scared.
It's better that we don't see it yet. We are not ready to think that big yet.

It would be like if you showed the Pilgrims of 1607 a Commodore 64 in action...they would panic and kill you for such "witchcraft".

Future computers in our lifetime:
1) Monitors will project into the air and use NANO dust for imaging
2) Keyboards will be replaced by "hologram boxes" projected by a flat piece of material where your keyboard used to sit. You manipulate data with your hands. Certain gestures like snapping your fingers will launch powerful program commands.
3) Your PC storage will be in the QUADRABYTES
4) The Internet will be 50,000 times faster than now
5) A PC will be 1,000,000 times more powerful

nano's are being looked at as a health problem, they could get into your lungs and you're basically dead.
keyboards will always stay the way they are, they'll probably have screens on them for a tablet pen or finger.
thumb drives will hold over 400 gbs.
and instead of holograms we'll have glasses that work with software on a pc..

They also happen to know that fusion occurs due to the nuclear weak force; which converts protons to neutrons and neutrons to protons via bosons. And, indeed, there is a mountain of literature on the mechanics of this fundamental force which has been united with electromagnetism under super symmetry in the standard model. Either you're trying to say scientists know a lot about the brain or you chose a poor example.

Bahhaaaaa. You are an idiot. You copied and pasted some wikipedia garbage and it shows.

Sure man, I'm the idiot ;)