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This is an upload by DJ Ware explaining the Landauer Limit and implications for silicon tech. Don Ware is a former Bell Labs engineer that posts about computing at an advanced level.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUkGPIzsl6Y

Here is the more ambiguous Wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer's_principle

This is why the future of all technology is likely biological, and we live in the Stone Age of Silicon presently... or at least this supports my hard sci-fi universe narrative. I did not know how close the end of silicon may be. I highly recommend watching this upload. I've been pondering this one for days.

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