Fractals aren't just fascinating computer generated patterns, they could also be the key to future computer architecture. Professor Phil Moriarty explains. More from Phil on Sixty Symbols: bit.ly/C_SixtySym Silicon brain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e06C-yUwlc Thanks to Noah Hardwicke for the Christmas Card Thanks to Jamie Mair for his "Random Walk" "Diffusion-limited aggregation (DLA)" program which he's kindly put on github: bit.ly/C_RandomWalk https://www.facebook.com/computerphile https://twitter.com/computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: https://bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. More at http://www.bradyharan.com/