IBM CEO; The future of computing is....analog!

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I was thinking about this 2 years ago when someone brought up the fact
they hadn't been able to move artificial intelligence forward nearly
as much as they'd have hoped. Now it seems a shift to analog might
come to pass. It ties in with the emphasis of various corporations on
the developement of nanotechnology. Motorola's announcement of
production of billion-element displays seems to be related.
I wonder if this means they could produce something like a high
performance vidicon tube (obviously in a different format than the
old, long tubes) as a new kind of digital camera sensor, a sensor with
a smoothly linear response and a much broader dynamic range?

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>> I was thinking about this 2 years ago when someone brought up the fact
>> they hadn't been able to move artificial intelligence forward nearly
>> as much as they'd have hoped. Now it seems a shift to analog might
>> come to pass. It ties in with the emphasis of various corporations on
>> the developement of nanotechnology. Motorola's announcement of
>> production of billion-element displays seems to be related.
>> I wonder if this means they could produce something like a high
>> performance vidicon tube (obviously in a different format than the
>> old, long tubes) as a new kind of digital camera sensor, a sensor with
>> a smoothly linear response and a much broader dynamic range?
>
> So how exactly can a sensor with "smoothly linear response" provide a
> broader dynamic range?..Oh, wait--it can't.

Why not?

Craig.