{"id":35289,"date":"2017-03-13T12:52:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T19:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/scientists-want-to-build-a-super-fast-self-replicating-computer-that-grows-as-it-computes"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:09:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:09:30","slug":"scientists-want-to-build-a-super-fast-self-replicating-computer-that-grows-as-it-computes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/scientists-want-to-build-a-super-fast-self-replicating-computer-that-grows-as-it-computes","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Want to Build a Super-Fast, Self-Replicating Computer That \u201cGrows as It Computes\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-want-to-build-a-super-fast-self-replicating-computer-that-grows-as-it-computes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists say it\u2019s possible to build a new type of self-replicating computer that replaces silicon chips with processors made from DNA molecules, and it would be faster than any other form of computer ever proposed \u2014 even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/researchers-have-built-the-first-reprogrammable-quantum-computer\">quantum computers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Called a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Non-deterministic_Turing_machine\">nondeterministic universal Turing machine<\/a> (NUTM), it\u2019s predicted that the technology could execute all possible algorithms at once by taking advantage of DNA\u2019s ability to replicate almost perfect copies of itself over billions of years.<\/p>\n<p>The basic idea is that our current electronic computers are based on a finite number of silicon chips, and we\u2019re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-just-developed-the-world-s-smallest-ever-transistor\">fast approaching the limit<\/a> for how many we can actually fit in our machines.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-want-to-build-a-super-fast-self-replicating-computer-that-grows-as-it-computes\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-want-to-build-a-super...t-computes<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists say it\u2019s possible to build a new type of self-replicating computer that replaces silicon chips with processors made from DNA molecules, and it would be faster than any other form of computer ever proposed \u2014 even quantum computers. Called a nondeterministic universal Turing machine (NUTM), it\u2019s predicted that the technology could execute all possible [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35289"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58432,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35289\/revisions\/58432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}