Say it ain't so? I was hoping computers would reach some sort of "ludicrous" speed sometome down the road!!!

CNN.com has this story...

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[This message has been edited by DSettahr (edited April 24, 2004).]

Aw, shucks. Only 1,000 times faster than current state-of-the-art devices?

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Thats assuming we still use magentic drives to store data down the road. So we still might reach "ludicrous" speeds.

like we could fit a particle accellerator in a computer

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So when are we going to start using lab-grown brain tissue for our computers?

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That's why we have solid state memory.

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We'll probobly hit some other limitation before we get there.

No matter, we'll all be dead by then anyways...

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Even if you do reach a limitation like, say, 5000 gigs... hard drives keep getting smaller and smaller, so it really won't be a problem then to just add more hard drives to your computer.

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Mmm... bio-neural gel packs...

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just dont cook fondue around them.

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There are other limitations to computing that will plague us. Moore's Law, quantum physics, just to name a few.

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You do know that about... 30 years ago, maybe even less, people were saying that computers would never become house hold devices, right? With that in mind, i wouldnt doubt that it's possible in the future.



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There's already been a fair bit of work with cultured neural nets from rat brains or the like, not sure if theyve done anything with them for drive storage devices, but check out http://wireheading.com for all your wirehead needs..

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It's not a question of capacity, it's actual speed you can read and write to, which isn't really something you notice that much from hard drive to hard drive.

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But with multiple drives, you'll be able to write to more than one hard drive at a time. Say you have 10 drives in your machine, you could set them up so that data is spread across them rather than as separate volumes. Think RAID, but optimising for speed rather than data integrity. You'd also be able to set it up so that you can trade off RAID aspects (data integrity) with "concurrent access" aspects (speed of accessing data), e.g. with 10 disks, have half dedicated to "concurrent access" with the other half RAIDing the 5 original disks. So you get 5 times the physical speed of one hard drive, with some of the added benefits of RAID.

I'll bet good money that we'll end up using light as the next storage medium.

[This message has been edited by Mister_Sinister (edited April 25, 2004).]