{"id":72733,"date":"2017-09-20T02:42:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T09:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/chips-off-the-old-block-computers-are-taking-design-cues-from-human-brains"},"modified":"2017-09-20T02:42:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T09:42:22","slug":"chips-off-the-old-block-computers-are-taking-design-cues-from-human-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/chips-off-the-old-block-computers-are-taking-design-cues-from-human-brains","title":{"rendered":"Chips Off the Old Block: Computers Are Taking Design Cues From Human Brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chips-off-the-old-block-computers-are-taking-design-cues-from-human-brains2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, some of the world\u2019s largest tech companies are taking a cue from biology as they respond to these growing demands. They are rethinking the very nature of computers and are building machines that look more like the human brain, where a central brain stem oversees the nervous system and offloads particular tasks \u2014 like hearing and seeing \u2014 to the surrounding cortex.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>New technologies are testing the limits of computer semiconductors. To deal with that, researchers have gone looking for ideas from nature.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/16\/technology\/chips-off-the-old-block-computers-are-taking-design-cues-from-human-brains.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/16\/technology\/chips-off-the-...rains.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, some of the world\u2019s largest tech companies are taking a cue from biology as they respond to these growing demands. They are rethinking the very nature of computers and are building machines that look more like the human brain, where a central brain stem oversees the nervous system and offloads particular tasks \u2014 like [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72733","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}