tola ([info]hippygeek) wrote,
@ 2006-09-27 23:43:00
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BT Future Gazing: extremely smart yogurt, ultra simple computing
"We did the calculations, and we reckon that it's possible to make a yoghurt with roughly the same processing power as the entire European population." --Ian Pearson, Futurologist: The ITWales Interview

The idea of "Ultra Simple Computing" appealed to me:

"Computers can be redesigned from the ground up with tens of thousands of little chips to distribute the load. It will mean there will be no need for an operating system or even a hard disk, as everything can be saved on the chips".

To me, a computer is just a network of networks of networks - right from a network of semiconductors on a chip up to a distributed supercomputer over a international stupid network like the Internet.




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[info]sunflowerinrain
2006-09-30 09:50 am UTC (link)
Amusing article, but I doubt Ian actually said all that quite as it's reported; though he does say things to provoke reaction and catch journalists' attention and that of the business heads who have the money, rather in the style of Peter Cochrane (his ex-boss).

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Could snap hmi out of it?
(Anonymous)
2007-01-14 12:49 pm UTC (link)
Hello


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