Computing
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We’re conditioned to think that computer chips should be small, but a supercomputer made from chips the size of dinner…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Future computers won’t necessarily be silicon, they could be chemical, liquid, molecular, or even biological in nature. Love the…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What happens when virtual computers running “Metaverse worlds” can be used to run virtual computers running Metaverse worlds ad infinitum?…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By turning nature into a biological computer researchers can get plants to do all kinds of things they could never…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Molecular computing could help usher in the era of biological, chemical, liquid, and other kinds of futuristic computers that are…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI needs power, and the better the AI the more power it needs … until now. Love the Exponential…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The smaller the transistors the more powerful and efficient the computing system, but as transistors get smaller making these chips…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In the future machine vision will capture even more videos and images than it does today, and synthetic content will…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Up until now the contact lens hasn’t been put onto anyones eyeball, and for good reason, so this first human…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Supercomputers are always getting faster, and now for the first time one has smashed the exascale barrier. Love the…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There are some workloads supercomputers are better at, and there are other workloads, like optimisation problems, that quantum computers are…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The rate of information growth is now so vast that in a century the planet could end up being just…
