> It was intriguing and piqued my interest. However, it smells a lot like hyped-up crackpot science to me ... if it seems too good to be true, it probably is. There's a lot of vagueness here, "what ifs", etc. Like "What if we could evolve hardware to make use of hidden physics?" Yes, well, what if? What is "hidden physics"? And why doesn't the author try it? :-)
> I looked briefly at his bio, and his background is "new media" and "addressing abstract social and technological ideas to mixed audiences" ... (computer) science, not so much.
> That said, I do like the idea of reducing abstraction layers, getting closer to the hardware, and using seemingly-strange physics for what it's worth. I'm just very skeptical of his framing of it as something which could make everything 1000x faster overnight.
> I remember reading a book years ago by "futurist" Michio Kaku called Visions. At the time I was really inspired by his "visions", which sounded very scientific. However, I think they were probably just vague, well, visions. This writing strikes me as similar.