From: Skye Howard (skyezacharia@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Dec 09 1999 - 21:32:17 MST
I've been playing around with an idea for a
little bit, though I haven't had the time to put any
real look into the feasibility...
It goes something like this:
If you had a really good holographic data storage
system (one functionally as good or better in every
respect as any modern memory storage) would it be
possible to network the holographic matrix? My
thoughts being something like, "since when you split a
hologram in two, you get two holograms, what if you
had a bunch of networked computers forming a single
holographic memory between them... so that when one
computer crashed, the network as a whole retains the
data... so none of the data is lost, only the
hardware."
However, upon considering the subject I realised I
didn't have the slightest idea where to begin... I've
started reading about holography and computer
networks, but I was hoping that by putting this idea
out here I'd encourage some sort of interesting
feedback- or at least information as to why it
wouldn't be feasible, were this the case...
Anyways, it has a lot of applications- for example,
we talk about uploading on the list a lot. If the
computer that contains an uploaded personality
crashes... what then? Well, with some sort of
holographic system, a stabler form of uploading could
exist- one with less risk of destruction in the case
of some disaster.
Any thoughts on how this might slow down existing
networks, how modifications to programs might be made
in a holographic system... actually, just about
anything at all relating to this might be interesting.
-Skye
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