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Computing vs Computronium - What's the difference?

computing | computronium |

As nouns the difference between computing and computronium

is that computing is (literally) the process or act of calculation while computronium is (science fiction) a hypothetical material engineered to maximize its use as a computing substrate.

As a verb computing

is .

computing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (-)
  • (literally) The process or act of calculation
  • Action of using (a) computer(s).
  • The study, field of computers and computer programming.
    • ''This course will cover several major fields of computing .

    Related terms

    * computable * computation * computerize

    See also

    * computer-aided design * computer graphics * computer language * computer science

    computronium

    English

    Noun

    (-) (wikipedia computronium)
  • (science fiction) A hypothetical material engineered to maximize its use as a computing substrate.
  • * 2014 , , Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies , Oxford University Press, page 140:
    • To this end, the AI might produce computronium (matter organized in a configuration that is optimal for computation) and use it to implment digital minds in states of euphoria.