Our daily life is so digitized that even technophobes know that a computer is a bunch of electronic transistors that process 1 and 0 signals encoded in a program. But a new kind of computing may force us to reboot our thinking: For the first time scientists have tapped the energy source used by living cells to power tiny proteins to solve a math problem.
This experimental biocomputer can’t outperform an electronic machine, and it’s designed to solve just one problem. But researchers think the concept can be scaled up someday to tackle challenges that currently befuddle conventional computers, using “thousands of times less power per calculation,” says Nicolau Jr. Cryptography, drug design and circuit paths all pose big mathematical challenges that are just begging for a natural parallel processor. And as Nicolau Jr. says, “Life does things more efficiently.”
Sumber : Smithsonian
May, 2016
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