It is not necessarily impossible, but the cartridge would have to involve a new medium for information storage. That was also sensitive to environmental conditions thus needing protection. Which would basically mandate a sealed system. This is not far fetched, but it is a considerable distance away in time.
Basically you might be slipping carts into a console again thirty years from now. With an absurd amount of data on them for photo realistic environments. That said it still wouldn't technically be a cart as you are considering them. It probably would not be a silicon board, and would probably be a slab of quartz in a plastic housing. For all the love of discs they do have storage limitations. That a crystal can easily surpass. The technology just isn't there yet though.
However by the time we get to Quantum computing you can also kiss console generations goodbye, because you really have reached a physical limitation. I know this discussion was not looking that far out, but in the realm of decades it certainly is possible. Discs are popular now due to unparalleled storage. Decades from now it could easily be a more three dimensional shape.
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