Terragen 3, that seems along way off I hope that for that major release milestone that another Technology Preview is released so that the kinks can be worked out, but like I said its a ways off in the distant future lots of interesting and cool features to be added between the first release of TG2 on 14th February and then, but it all depends on how well TG2 dose in the market place as a commercial product weather or not Planetside will have the resources to code what is likely to be a major under taking. How much of TG2's code base will survive into TG3, who at this stage can say?
Where will we be when TG3 comes down the pipe, as it where, in 10-15 years according to IBM they should have the manufacturing technology's to be able to make what they call "Super Computing on a Chip" CPU's a physical reality, that could at least in theory find there way into the home computer market or at the vary least high end workstations one suspects that IBM would let other semiconductor manufacturers use this technology in their chip designs in the way that their open architecture paved the way for the PC market we have today. In that same time scale then, we should be in the beginnings of the Optronics (Optical Electronics) age where semiconductors are based on using laser light to move data rather than silicon and copper wire as now, an optical chip using laser light is able to move data at much higher rates than current silicon based technology.
Regards to you.
Cyber-Angel