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"I personally like to see the use of biological nervous tissues for general-purpose computing. Furthermore, using physical properties of devices and building hybrid analog-digital general-purpose computers is extremely enticing."

Curious how the author doesn't mention the upcoming Memristor [1][2] computing paradigm. Memristor computing will be based upon an entirely different architecture, which will likely revolutionize computing. There is much more to it than I can describe here, but here's at least one company commercializing this tech as we speak [2].

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor

2. http://iopscience.iop.org/0957-4484/24/38/383001/pdf/0957-44...

2. http://www.crossbar-inc.com/




Entirely different architectures are very unlikely to revolutionize any industry due to path dependence.


That path dependence is really an important concept to consider when reflecting about technical standarts, programming languages and frameworks.




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