31 Jan
2009
31 Jan
'09
11:11 p.m.
Holographic memory has been right around the corner for *HOW* long?
I first heard of working prototypes sometime between '88-90.
Zane
At 8:40 PM -0800 1/31/09, Scanning wrote:
Jim is right ( write ? );
IBM is working on a Lithium Niobate ( LiNbO3 ) Holographic memory that could
store tens of Terabytes in a chunk the size of a sugar cube. Because of
optics issues this would have to be a non-removable media for now. Kiss your
DVDs goodbye. ( reference: LASER Focus World ).
Best regards, Steven
> Holger Veit wrote:
> > BlueRay (which I give 2 years
> > until the next technology will be thrown on the customer obsoleting the
> > format).
>
> Don't bet on it. Blu-Ray is the last consumer-deliverable physical
> media, which means it is the last consumer archival media. The entire
> entertainment industry has seen the writing on the wall and is moving
> toward digital distribution. There will not be a successor to Blu-Ray.
>
> In the future, we won't be burning to pieces of plastic for archiving.
> I fully expect to be archiving exclusively to hard disks in 10 years and
> SSDs in 15. Eventually in 25 years all storage (flash/ssd/hard
> disks/tape/BD-R/DVD-R/etc.) will converge into a single technology.
> --
> Jim Leonard
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