My cheap laptop right here has more processing power than the whole college where I studied (with 10000 other students). It has 4x the memory of the whole college and also has more than 100x the storage capacity of the college. That was 15 years ago. My phone has more memory and storage than the college and all the schools I attended put together. Given that the fastest supercomputers double in power every 14 months, it doesn't take long to realise that in 200 years, there will be a lot of power at people's fingertips. Whilst F1 might not exist at that point, I think it's a fair assumption that people will still be racing and that we'll still have an atmosphere, so CFD will be important. 200 years ago, people were still racing, but they raced horses rather than cars and that was the case for thousands of years before that.Just_a_fan wrote:I'd be hugely disappointed if we still have cars, or anything remotely like them, in 100 or 200 years. As for computing power, you're looking at having the equivalent of all of the world's supercomputers, squared, available for "shits and giggles". Sure, it might happen but only if there is nothing more interesting than studying an historic irrelevance - which is what F1 will be by then.
Take a look at an Egyptian racing chariot hauled out of a tomb after 5000 years. They applied their technology to going faster with metal bushes to reduce friction and holes hacked out of the chassis rails to reduce weight.
