Is Optical Data Storage the Future of Computing?
Light research is opening doors for optical storage and computing, the goal of which is to replace electrical components with optical in order to boost processing speeds and data storage densities by several orders of magnitude and take the information technology industry into a new era. Although the technology may not be as sophisticated as isolinear chips, today’s photonic (light-based) devices combine greatly improved performance with dramatically lower energy consumption, and could be the wave of the future as far as data storage and transport is concerned. See Science Daily for more. Isolinear chips may truly be the future of computing Universal Translator May Be Possible The universal translator is a classic Star Trek plot device that makes encounters with alien civilizations much less awkward. “Alienese” goes in and American English comes out — at least on television in 1967. But, when a Professor of Biological Anthropology and Linguistics starts talking about it, that’s somethi
