Perpetual motion

Gordon Moore's Law continues to operate, offering us a high computing power with low energy consumption. The size of the transistors is reduced and the amount of heat too. We can only wait for the tiny chips will help to disperse the brain to unprecedented limits. Or not?

Electricity is really a great power. Thanks to him, we can afford to live in a civilized world. Moreover, it was on the rise and electrical computers, communications and life-support systems. It is enough that would make progress over the next 20-30 years, but then what? Can we, extracting energy from wind, sunlight or tides, to travel between the stars, or create a material with a controlled structure at the atomic level? Progress will come, but only as long as we provide it with energy.

Cover the earth ball technology, providing competent energy absorption, creating over small computers, we will stay near the wall. And then from us will require other means and values. Other energy and materials. Something that will allow us to step outside of the "human" perception.

Perpetual motion that drives progress may stop working permanently, or be transformed into something more. What is it - it's up to us.