[adbge]

I, for one, am ridiculously excited by the idea of an entirely new computing paradigm. I know some at HN abhor anything that isn't practical this very second, but I think they just lack imagination. I'd be interested in any articles submitted in the vein of non-traditional computing.

[jacquesm]

Plenty of people here are very interested in 'non conventional computing', in fact I've learned more about this from the people here than from any other source on the web.

Here are some searches that you could try:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+p...

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+c...

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+c...

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+f...

[billswift]

It would be more exciting if there hadn't been so many in the recent past, like quantum computing that's been going to have a practical application Real Soon Now for the past decade.

[jacquesm]

One problem with any new technology is that the 'get rich quick' crowd and their marketeers will jump on it to avoid missing the next possibility to easy riches. They'll over-hype the product, create unrealistic expectations and move on to the next hot thing when they've given it a bad name.

Modern day locusts is what they are.