• Question: Whats an organic super computer and why are they so good

    Asked by one23 to David, Luna, Mark, Melanie, Probash on 19 Mar 2011 in Categories: .
    • Photo: David Pyle

      David Pyle answered on 18 Mar 2011:

      I imagine it’s a computer which uses chip technology based not on silicon wafers, but on organic molecules (fixed to a substrate). These could could be engineered to be smaller (molecule scale is of the order of nanometres, so more computing power will fit on a given size of chip), and perhaps cheaper as well.

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      Melanie Stefan answered on 19 Mar 2011:

      I’ve never heard of organic super computers! The only organic super computer I can think of is the brain. It’s definitely organic. It also computes stuff, although the way it works is probably a bit different from other computers. It does less well than silicone-based computers in some tasks (like remembering facts or playing chess), but it does much, much better in others (like recognising emotions in human faces or thinking for itself), so it could probably be seen as a “super computer”

    • Photo: Luna Munoz

      Luna Munoz answered on 19 Mar 2011:

      hmmm….I don’t know. Is it found in a skull, by any chance?

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