[ LUGOS ] [Fwd: UFO Technology? Definitely not, but read c't!]

[Andrej Presern]

Viggo L. Norum wrote:
> 
> In 5 years or so, when we all have dockable personal computers in
> credit card size, working at 10 GHz and with 100 TB storage, may
> we perhaps still be running Linux.....
> 
> I guess the UFO-article was a joke, but the fact is that existing
> Earth developed technology is 2000 times better (Humans: 170 TB on a
> credit card, fake aliens: 90 GB on a poker chip).  A good article
> about it can be found in the Linux friendly magazine "c't":
> 
> http://www.heise.de/ct/98/03/018/          (German)
> http://www.heise.de/ct/english/98/03/018/  (English)
> 
> The key words in the c't article are: Data processing and storage
> using opto-elecronic plastic film.  The specs of the system described
> are in the range of 170 TB storage on a plastic credit card and access
> times which are a small fraction of normal RAM.  Using laser-printing
> technology it is possible to make opto-electronic circuits in a speed
> of square meters of plastic per second.
> 
> A Norwegian company named "Opticom AS" leads the development in this
> area.  The stock prices for the company have been very turbulent
> during the last year: http://base.nettvik.no/bin/fo/graf.cgi?ticker=OPC
> 
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