Get on the Optical Bus: Possible Future for Computing

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http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors ... ign=090910



TL;DR
Instead of using electricity running through copper in circuit boards, engineers at IBM have learned to use photons to send information instead of electrons. This change will increase current computing power 100 times over.

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Combine this with memristors and you have the beginnings of implantable supercomputers and Androids. Then...once we shrink quantum computing from the size of a refrigerator to the size of a modern computer chip...true Artificial Intelligence. The Culture here we come!