“It’s some sort of fantastic mechanical micro thinker, sir!”
The blueprint for a tiny, ultra-robust mechanical computer has been outlined by US researchers.
The energy-efficient nano computer is inspired by ideas about computing first put forward nearly 200 years ago.
Writing in the New Journal of Physics, the scientists say the machine would be built from nanometre-sized components, just billionths of a metre across.
The most exciting thing about the above, to me, are three claimed features:
1) Immune to EMP.
2) Low power consumption.
3) A practical workaround to the heat barrier implicit in Moore’s Law.
The above qualities make the nano-babbage chips (microdifference engines? 
)an ideal basis for the wearable/implantable devices that will make hyperconnection possible.
Yeah — I’m obsessed.
(Props to William Gillis @ Human Iterations )
