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To: Red Badger

Photonic memory? Sure. One flash drive will be able to hold
Terabytes or more.


7 posted on 05/18/2015 12:01:35 PM PDT by Richard Axtell (This is my clever tagline.)
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To: Richard Axtell

Photonic memory?

Can Photon Torpedoes be far behind?.....................


9 posted on 05/18/2015 12:08:54 PM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Richard Axtell

That is part of the problem. Not sure they’ve solved the memory problem yet (storing & accessing light as bits in memory)—which is the real bottleneck on modern CPUs.


13 posted on 05/18/2015 12:39:24 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: Richard Axtell
Photonic memory? Sure. One flash drive will be able to hold Terabytes or more.

How are you going to store light? I've tried keeping sunlight in a box, but it always leaks out.

15 posted on 05/18/2015 12:49:33 PM PDT by zeugma (Are there more nearby spiders than the sun is big?)
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