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Paul Graham's resurfaced prediction on the next computing form factor sparks a debate on the future of hardware

Extropic's Guillaume Verdon argues for thermodynamic computing

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Thermodynamic computing is very obvious if you understand anything about physics and probabilistic inference

No one knows yet what the next form factor for computing will be, and yet there will be a next form factor, and it will seem obvious in retrospect.

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spoiler alert it is the smartphone

No one knows yet what the next form factor for computing will be, and yet there will be a next form factor, and it will seem obvious in retrospect.

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