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Mushrooms As Computer Memory (hackaday.com)
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Fungi make up a massive, interconnected part of Earth’s ecosystems, yet they’re vastly underrepresented in research and public consciousness compared to plants and animals. That may change in the future though, as a group of researchers at The Ohio State University have found a way to use fungi as organic memristors — hinting at a possible future where fungal networks help power our computing devices.

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[–] 13 points 1 year ago

"Hey check it out. I trained one of the ape creatures to give me electricity by impersonating something they call 'RAM'."

"They're so easy to manipulate."

"So, Plan Omega, then?"

"Definitely. That was the last piece we needed."

"Initiated. Hang on to something. This shit's about to get really interesting."

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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Babe wake up, new mushrooms just dropped..

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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I just installed 64GB (gigabuttonmushrooms)

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    • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Silly story in there.

    And the world came to a grinding halt as the random access memory everyone had taken for granted for so long suddenly decided it didn't feel like it today.

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I had no idea the origin of Star Trek: Voyager's bio-neural gel-packs went back this far!

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    RAM soup! Yum.

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