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With all that said above, one thing can be clearly noticed with the computer hardware one can have today at hand - it's amazingly unflexible. And it's still sticking in "children's shoes", so to say. If you take the most advanced and complex computer there's to find in the world, well on Earth anyway - the human brain - you most probably won't find any such issues as backwards compatibility, as it is able to adapt to any circumstances and situations if necessary.

Which is probably the point of all problems - "hard"ware. There's been non-public development and testing of new form(s) of completely different, to what is officially available today, branch of computer(s) for quite some years now. Half-organic, biologically based processing to be more precise. But it's very hard to find anything on that in any news and it will probably still take many and many more years before it could even be considered widely available. If, and when it will, that might be turning point in backwards compatibility which we are experiencing with today's conventional hardware, not counting some of the other advantages it would have.