My scifi-fueled mind thinks of a future in which plants and other organic material form a self-healing, planet-spanning computing substrate.
Adamatzky’s interest is more than mere curiosity. His idea is that plants can be thought of as organic wires that could become the infrastructure behind an entirely new generation of biological circuits, sensors and even information processors that grow for scratch with little more than a sprinkle of water and a little soil.
First Tests of Prototype Organic Wires Grown from Seedlings | MIT Technology Review
Self-growing circuits made out of biological structures such as plant stems act as temperature sensors and more, says expert in unconventional computing.
Originally posted on Google+ · January 29, 2014
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