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random thought of the moment:

It’s incredible how long science has succeeded in keeping men’s minds off their fundamental unhappiness and its own very limited power to remedy their fundamental unhappiness. One marvel follows another—electric light, phonograph, motor car, telephone, radio, airplane, television. It’s a curious list, and very pathetic. The soul of man is crying for hope of purpose or meaning; and the scientist says, ‘Here is a telephone’ or ‘Look, television!’—exactly as one tries to distract a baby crying for its mother by offering it sugar-sticks and making funny faces. — Frank Sheed

Wet Computing?

October 27th, 2002 by Funky Dung

Programmable Water
By Paulo Blikstein

"Computation is not just about electronics."

"The idea of the project was to build some devices that could do computation without electrons. Water was a interesting choice, in fact, Fluidics is a very important field of study that is widely used in aerospace or mission-critical applications, where electronic control devices don't offer the reliability of cannot support the environment. Also, military technologies use Fluidics in order to prevent malfunction in a nuclear war, when electric devices cease to work."

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