In Pictures: Upcoming Technologies We Want Right Now
In Pictures: Upcoming Technologies We Want Right NowHolographic Data Storage
Holographic data storage involves a different approach compared to today's standard disk- and flash-based processes, recording data throughout the volume of a thick, photosensitive optical material. Once perfected, this method could allow for recording multiple images--perhaps thousands--in the same space by placing the laser at different angles.
For recording, the laser is split into a reference and a data-carrying beam. The latter essentially picks up information arranged in a checkerboard pattern as it passes through a spatial light modulator. It then interferes with the reference beam through the material, storing the data. A good explanation of how holographic data is manipulated can be found here, at Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories Web site.
Shouldn't Tom's, of all people, understand what's wrong with this statement?
As a starter: Technology and the advancement of our race should take precedence over any particular job field. Sure, the horse-buggy builders had some tough years learning to work at the Ford factory, but that's how life is.
Great article otherwise though, thanks guys!
Shouldn't Tom's, of all people, understand what's wrong with this statement?
As a starter: Technology and the advancement of our race should take precedence over any particular job field. Sure, the horse-buggy builders had some tough years learning to work at the Ford factory, but that's how life is.
Great article otherwise though, thanks guys!
late 1800s..who knew...
And here I thought the internet and space travel were a more recent thing...
If the vehicles could do that then I wonder what they could do now. It is true that really most of whats holding this back is regulation and litigation issues.I wish the Darpa challenges were still being held but, I guess they got what they wanted.
On the topic of immortality, I think we should develop terraforming and other interstellar colonization technologies first.
This planet is going to get real crowded real fast if nobody dies in the next 10 years.
NEVER. You will have to take away my steering wheel from my cold dead hands.
Tell that to the thousands of people passing laws against cell towers near homes, schools, and anyplace else that you might find a human being. I suspect that this will meet enough resistance to discourage Nikola Tesla.
Who will police the chemicals within?
Much harder to control uranium (depleted or otherwise) when a hundred thousand homes have a back yard nuclear gen.
That being said, the fact that the proposed design runs on depleted uranium is great, it means there is already a layer of "re-use" built into the product, something to to consider when you think about the nearly permanent existence of these chemicals after all reasonable use has been made.
With immortality you wouldn't live forever. You'd either starve to death, be murdered, or die in a traffic accident. People shouldn't assume that the entire human race will suddenly become better behaved and have answers to current problems just because we are immortal. Every problem we have would only get worse.
radio, wi-fi, mobile phones radiation =/= Magnetic radiation, totally different frequencies. One can live his entire life with a big magnet attached to his head and he would not have a single problem (except for neck pain), some say it helps with health problems.