Sustainable memristors from shiitake mycelium for high-frequency bioelectronics

> We demonstrate fungal computing via mycelial networks interfaced with electrodes, showing that fungal memristors can be grown, trained, and preserved through dehydration, retaining functionality at frequencies up to 5.85 kHz, with an accuracy of 90 ± 1%. Notably, shiitake has exhibited radiation resistance, suggesting its viability for aerospace applications

Soon we'll have shiitake replacing transistors in our airplane and spacecraft computers, while sitting and eating ramen on the vehicles themselves. The future is shaping up to be interesting.

So sci-fi isn’t far off after all.

War of the Worlds.

The last of us.

Battlestar Galatica.

All had some fungi/organic hook (ok, last of us is about zombies but still).

Curious if we could mux them into something faster at a higher order or something. The idea that organics can be used for electronics is so wild.

Star Trek has a number of organic computing examples, too. Species 8472, Data, and the Borg all use varying degrees of organic components.

There's also the bio-neural gel packs on Voyager and the unnamed 31st century Earth vessel discovered by Archer and the NX-01 Enterprise.

New Trek even has a mycelial network in space.