A popular mushroom species can be trained to remember past electrical states, allowing it to act as both a memory device and data processor known as an organic memristor. Scaling performance may be a challenge, but theoretically, the discovery opens the way to computers that consume fewer resources and might eventually be cheaper and certainly easier to dispose of. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Arthur C Clarke famously said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” On that basis, one day there could be a different kind of “magic mushroom”, not one that contains psilocybin , but one that can beat the most powerful supercomputers.

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