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Can’t wait to have some of these memristors in my phone, powered by graphene batteries, running on clean electricity from the regional fusion plant.

csours 8y ago
The future sounds beautiful.
- PuffinBlue 8y ago
  And only about 30 years away for as long as I can remember.
TimTheTinker 8y ago
> regional fusion plant You mean the sun, right?
- B1FF_PSUVM 8y ago
  People don't realize that solar is not a "fair trade" energy, that celestial body is being ruined to supply our egotistical needs ...
fiblye 8y ago
And the year after that will be the year of the Linux desktop.
- jacobush 8y ago
  ... yes because that will be after the apocalypse and what remained of working pre-war technology were ancient "desktop computers". Big hulking things you couldn't put in your pocket, much less implant and connect to your brain. But they worked, and some source code was available. It was called "Linux".
- goodcanadian 8y ago
  I understand the joke, but I've been running Linux on my desktop for something like 15 years. ;-)
espadrine 8y ago
To be faire, fusion plants lag on because either they are designed by people without enough resources, or by complex red-tape inducing collaboration. ITER hoped to be done in 10 years starting in 2006, but they could only start in 2010 because every country wanted it to be built somewhere different. Then, poor cooperation from Domestic Agencies caused frequent changes that were merged without hierarchical validation, causing the need for a full-time team whose only job was to detect inconsistencies post-hoc. Therefore, the planned completion in 2020 was pushed to 2025. As a result, certain countries like the US made themselves begged to keep their promised investment. See this analysis: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/03/a-star-in-a-bottle https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/03/a-star-in-a-bo... I don't see how those reasons would apply to memristor, though: development is controlled by a single company, and that company has resources.

csours 8y ago

The future sounds beautiful.

PuffinBlue 8y ago
And only about 30 years away for as long as I can remember.

TimTheTinker 8y ago

> regional fusion plant You mean the sun, right?

B1FF_PSUVM 8y ago
People don't realize that solar is not a "fair trade" energy, that celestial body is being ruined to supply our egotistical needs ...

fiblye 8y ago

And the year after that will be the year of the Linux desktop.

jacobush 8y ago
... yes because that will be after the apocalypse and what remained of working pre-war technology were ancient "desktop computers". Big hulking things you couldn't put in your pocket, much less implant and connect to your brain. But they worked, and some source code was available. It was called "Linux".
goodcanadian 8y ago
I understand the joke, but I've been running Linux on my desktop for something like 15 years. ;-)

espadrine 8y ago

To be faire, fusion plants lag on because either they are designed by people without enough resources, or by complex red-tape inducing collaboration. ITER hoped to be done in 10 years starting in 2006, but they could only start in 2010 because every country wanted it to be built somewhere different. Then, poor cooperation from Domestic Agencies caused frequent changes that were merged without hierarchical validation, causing the need for a full-time team whose only job was to detect inconsistencies post-hoc. Therefore, the planned completion in 2020 was pushed to 2025. As a result, certain countries like the US made themselves begged to keep their promised investment. See this analysis: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/03/a-star-in-a-bottle https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/03/a-star-in-a-bo... I don't see how those reasons would apply to memristor, though: development is controlled by a single company, and that company has resources.