Always thought there was potential in having some sort of Universal Serial Bus (not to be confused with USB) to very differently physic’ed computer subunits. Sort’ve in the mode of the ant-farm as part of the ‘computer’ in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld’s Hex. Need to solve a nasty NP-complete problem?: hook up this slime-mold module and “they’ll” solve it for you with complicated chemical gradients and flows. Next, a culture of transformed (cockroach) neurons inna box. Here’s an olfactory sensor made of zebra fish adenoidal tissue. Thermal flow modeling with this thermoplastic layered on top of a titanium brick. And, of course, something something quantum mechanics sans unlucky cat (liquid boron for choice)
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