[babygene]

Thanks for the heads up on “memristor”. Interesting deice... Imagine the problems “backing up” that kind of machine?

Of course other cool ideas have came out of HP-Labs that sounded exciting and yet fizzled. Remember the bubble memory. It was going to change the world... but it didn’t. Though I had an opportunity to play with it on a project in the lab.

[CutePuppy]

I can't really blame HP for all the cool ideas that didn't make it out of the lab, it's such a common occurrence with just about any company on Earth, from minuscule to giant and subject not only to pure science but economic and market forces. I keep being amazed constantly at the things or processes that have been conceived in someone's mind and actually brought to manufacturing and market after billions of dollars spent in research and development.

Re "backing up" memristor, indeed it would be interesting challenge. I assume it would be done with much faster carrier/transport technology, something optical / photonic / quantum or something as "mundane" as T-Rays once they tame electromagnetic Terahertz Radion - University of Utah waveguides bridge 'terahertz gap'

Science and scientists mostly renew my faith in humanity, while politics and politicians usually keep ruthlessly removing it.