Most people will grow old without making a machine do more for them than some math problems. You're different, though. You know (or are learning) how to make a machine that can represent your dreams! What will you make your machine do? I must not dwell on time and life lost so long as I can make a machine extend my abilities beyond that of the ordinary person.

my dream machine will run minecraft and all my emulators at >60fps. specs are 2TB RAM 10TB STORAGE Quad-core PilcoCracklizard 1010 processor (not currently in existence yet) Really Expensive Graphics Card and a triple >1080p monitor setup to go along with it the mouse is a $10 wireless logitech one someone to talk to

Yeah... about that 60 fps... you might need to make a machine or hire some people to actually edit the actual game files... you can shrink an image fine but enlarging an image... you can't get what isn't there. Also, that's not quite what I meant... a titanium hammer has lovely specs but it still doesn't do much of anything, much less anything autonomously. >.>

does the machine have to be able to actually exist

heheheh... well the idea was the motivation of what are you going to drive yourself to do. You can always dream big, though. If you try the seemingly impossible, you might just be able to make it happen too. So, what kind of a machine do you imagine that you don't think is actually possible? A time machine? Harold Finch's supercomputer that spies on the WHOLE WORLD?

a machine that warps reality itself. the laws of the universe, the existence of energy, it can all be edited. also, hairstyles.