The Incredible Biological Computer
A Technology Futures foresight into the future of computation and compute
The future of computers is biological. Stated differently, in the future computers will be biological in nature rather than digital (or non-biological analog).
I think we’ll find the truth of this is obvious once we put all the Signals together. In other words, we’re going to analyze at the level of a Change Element. I feel we can better grasp the scope and trends at this level of resolution.
The common term in the literature is biodigital computing.
The trigger for this was a few weeks ago when I analyzed a Signal related to artificial photosynthesis and the use of protein crystals in bacteria. My analysis was based on a study which caught my eye. In the end, I foresaw a transformative shift in both biotechnology and computational science that seemed to point towards new frontiers in understanding life’s complexity and harnessing it for unprecedented computational applications.
Now, I’ve had a deep interest in using biologicals for computation since early in my scholarly career. Consequently, I have been collecting research and various mainstream Signals for a long time.
