By Futurist Thomas Frey
When we thought computers were reaching their limit, nature quietly handed us the next leap. In the Swiss town of Vevey, researchers at the startup FinalSpark are cultivating human brain organoids—mini-brains grown from stem cells—and plugging them into electrode arrays to act as living processors. These clumps, each measuring just a few millimetres, are no longer just models for neuroscience—they’re becoming the underlying architecture of tomorrow’s computing infrastructure.
Biological neurons already out-strip silicon on raw metrics: they’re approximately one million times more energy efficient than current artificial neurons, and they self-organize, self-repair and rewire. What we once simulated, we’re now assimilating. Rather than mimic the brain with chips, we’re tapping the brain’s hardware itself. The implication: “wetware” computing is no longer science fiction—it’s system design.
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