the persistence of memory

[tiedyedave]

This is pretty cool.

Comments

[chrisamaphone]

agreed!

[roseandsigil.livejournal.com]

Oh, awesome. I've seen a few mentions of this floating around, but this article is pretty good at explaining why this is interesting.

[tiedyedave]

I figure that IEEE would be the right place to go to hear the real deal. :-)

[platypuslord.livejournal.com]

That does sound pretty cool.

On the other hand, this paragraph:

But because a memristor can remember voltages, a memristor-driven computer would arguably
never need a reboot. “You could leave all your Word files and spreadsheets open, turn off
your computer, and go get a cup of coffee or go on vacation for two weeks,” says Williams.
“When you come back, you turn on your computer and everything is instantly on the screen
exactly the way you left it.”

makes me deeply unhappy, for reasons I think will be obvious.