Every now and then ...
... someone writes an article about the future. Making predictions, forecasting the demise of all that we know today, making terrible mistakes when describing current and commonplace technology, so on and so on and so on.
Throw in some reference to the world's FAAAAAAAAASTEST!!! supercomputer, to show you're up-to-date. Throw in AI/ML. Gotta have that.
It's the same kind of pitch that stockbrokers make when they try selling you a stock you've never heard of. It's all about the future.
Yeah, memristors are the future. Von Neumann artchitecture is dead. Moore's Law - kaputt.
We need memristors. To do what with?
Here's the thing: the people who are actually working on the future are doing just that, right now: they're working on it. They aren't talking about it. Why? Because (a) trade secrets, (b) don't let the competition what you're working on and (c) if the current working ideas don't pan out, no-one likes geting caught with their pants down making predictions that turned out to be bunk. OK, except professional future predictionists.
Someone's got a memristor startup and they're looking for more funding and some buzz. That's my guess.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
