{"id":223,"date":"2022-08-16T15:34:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T15:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/?page_id=223"},"modified":"2022-08-16T15:54:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T15:54:39","slug":"17-embodied-computation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/chapters\/17-embodied-computation\/","title":{"rendered":"17: Embodied Computation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-274\" src=\"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/chap-17.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"107\" height=\"106\" \/>Computation itself seems immaterial, but whether on your smartphone or in &#8216;the cloud&#8217;, it is very physical: electrons moving on silicon wafer photons streaming along optical fibres.\u00a0 In this chapter, we explore this physicality of computation.\u00a0\u00a0 Physics puts fundamental limitations on computation, and we see how this means that computation and information must come together at the same point in time and space.\u00a0 Practically, we have not reached these limits, Moore&#8217;s Law drives the miniaturisation and commoditisation of computation, which in turn enables radical changes including the Internet of Things and even coating every surface with a computation.\u00a0 In robots, autonomous vehicles, drones, and Alexa in your living room computation is physically amongst us.\u00a0 However physical computation has been around for many years: the success of market economies is due to the physical representation of information in money, a role that is now changing with digital currency and online commerce.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Keywords:<\/span> embodied computation, ubiquitous computing, physical computation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computation itself seems immaterial, but whether on your smartphone or in &#8216;the cloud&#8217;, it is very physical: electrons moving on silicon wafer photons streaming along optical fibres.\u00a0 In this chapter, we explore this physicality of computation.\u00a0\u00a0 Physics puts fundamental limitations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":192,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-223","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","","tg-column-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/223\/revisions\/275"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/physicality.org\/TouchIT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}