From Adam Whitehouse, Newcastle- under-Lyme, Staffordshire, UK
The recent discovery that memory requirements for computation can be drastically reduced raises an intriguing question: could this principle help extend the lifespan of smartphones and the like? Many older devices struggle to run newer operating systems due to fixed memory constraints. If we could rewrite OS processes using the newly discovered approach, could this allow modern updates to run efficiently on older hardware, delaying obsolescence(8 March, p 8)?
