/sci/, I have a crazy idea about the upcoming developments in computers. I think we will move away from the metal boxes we have now, which will be seen as archaic as steam engines in the decades to come. Could we feasibly build a computer not of solid wires, metal, and encased in plastic, but of different forms of matter, like liquids and gases? We already have liquid microchips, and we could extend that technology to an entire body of water, or even ocean, that computes.
>Liquid computation
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/01/c_137292496.htm
https://www.fanaticalfuturist.com/2019/02/american-researchers-unveil-the-worlds-first-liquid-computer-chip/
With the widespread use of 5G, will we now be able to send charge and information to objects around the world. Perhaps, if there is a whole network of 5G structures, they could make a computer out of "thin air"...
>Being able to beam power directly to these IoT devices will encourage the move to far more efficient manufacturing practices.
https://theconversation.com/amp/nikola-tesla-5g-network-could-realise-his-dream-of-wireless-electricity-a-century-after-experiments-failed-158665
Could we just beam information through the air instead of using wires and whatnot?