An eccentric friend of mine with a great love of building and fixing electronics sent me a couple of links that I’m still trying to wrap my head around. He’s greatly excited that HP Packard’s scientists have created the memristor. This is a component that was mathematically predicted almost forty years ago and stands to change the way we think about circuits and that sort of thing.
Apparently, we’ve been doing everything wrong. What we thought were anomalies were actually fundamental properties. And they can be used.
Aside from making much more energy efficient computers, it may also allow them to think. You know, like people. The circuit can remember what charge has been sent through it and this means a great increase in speed. There is less resistence. You may even say that resistence is futile.
