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Computers have started becoming more advanced and they will also become easier to use.
Improved speech recognition will make the operation of a computer easier. Virtual reality,
the technology of interacting with a computer using all of the human senses, will also contribute
 to better human and computer interfaces.

Standards for virtual-reality program languages—for example, Virtual Reality Modeling language (VRML)—are currently in use or are being developed for the World Wide Web Exotic models of computation are being developed, including biological computing that uses living organisms, molecular computing that uses molecules with particular properties, and computing that uses deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the basic unit of heredity, to store data and carry out operations. These are examples of possible future computational platforms that, so far, are limited in abilities or are strictly theoretical. Scientists investigate them because of the physical limitations of miniaturizing circuits embedded in silicon. There are also limitations related to heat generated by even the tiniest of transistors.

Intriguing breakthroughs occurred in the area of quantum computing in the late 1990s. Quantum computers under development use components of a chloroform molecule (a combination of chlorine and hydrogen atoms) and a variation of a medical procedure called magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to compute at a molecular level. Scientists use a branch of physics called quantum mechanics, which describes the behavior of subatomic particles (particles that make up atoms), as the basis for quantum computing. Quantum computers may one day be thousands to millions of times faster than current computers, because they take advantage of the laws that govern the behavior of subatomic particles. These laws allow quantum computers to examine all possible answers to a query simultaneously. Future uses of quantum computers could include code breaking and large database queries. Theorists of chemistry, computer science, mathematics, and physics are now working to determine the possibilities and limitations of quantum computing.

Communications between computer users and networks has started benefiting from new technologies such as broadband communication systems that can carry significantly more data faster or more conveniently to and from the vast interconnected databases that continue to grow in number and type.

Another improving area is the nanotechnology. For instance, Nanobot Computers of the Future (see picture below) is a microscopic, computerized robot, also known as nanobot, upper left, looks for life-threaten blockages in a human blood vessel, as imagined in this artist's futuristic illustration. The hypothetical robot uses rotary blades to break up the blockage and suction nozzles to remove the gray plaque. The disk-shaped objects in the illustration are red blood cells. Some scientists say that the ever-shrinking size of computer chips will open up an era of nanotechnology in which microscopic machines will perform a vast number of functions, including medical diagnosis and treatment such as shown here.