FTL Communications as a Research Program
This was a speculative research-program note, not a claim of faster-than-light engineering.
The useful part was the grouping of tools: dynamic programming, mathematical optimization, operations research, nonlinear systems, neural networks, field models, theory of computation, VLSI, FPGAs, Verilog, and photonics.
Those subjects meet when a physical question has to become a computable model. A communication limit is not only a physics statement; it also asks how information is represented, what boundary conditions are assumed, what optimization problem is being solved, and what hardware could test a reduced version.
The linked Wolfram note was useful as a prompt because it treated spacetime and graph rewriting as model-building material. The practical standard remains much stricter: any proposed mechanism needs equations, constraints, measurable predictions, and a test path.