From: Zahir Alpaslan (extropydummy@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Dec 18 1999 - 15:17:46 MST
You can find some information on optical memories here:
http://soliton.ucsd.edu/Research/projects.html
Zahir
>From: Skye Howard <skyezacharia@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.com
>To: extropians@extropy.com
>Subject: Holography
>Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 20:32:17 -0800 (PST)
>
> 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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