A future computer might reduce heat production by timing operations to match naturally occurring temperature swings within the device. See the press coverage of our work on the Landauer limit in a squeezed thermal memory:
Focus story by Michael Schirber at physics.aps.org.
Story by Alex Petrov at physicsworld.com.
Newspaper article by George van Hal in de Volkskrant (in Dutch).
Newspaper article by Dorine Schenk in NRC (in Dutch).