Back in January, Al Jazeera reported on a breakthrough in nano-data technology that could lead to unimaginable device and platform inventions similar to the Web 2.0 innovations. Al Jazeera's Tarek Bazley reports:
Researchers at IBM have created the world's smallest magnetic digital-storage device,using just 12 atoms to hold a single data bit of information. The discovery could lead to a new class of memory chips that would make smaller, more energy efficient computers.
Given the exponential leaps in memory technology, what will this mean to the emerging Web 3.0 tools? Amazing! Scary?
Amazing! Scary? Yes indeed. I have done a lot of work with programmable robots and controller systems (fairly small chipset and memory systems) and they continually have "meltdowns" and "loss of memory". Now the industry has found a way to make the chips a fraction of the size and way more powerfull which will force the corporations to use in their own systems. Just imagine when your bank starts using these nano chips to organize your accounts, and they performed similar to the robotic systems i have delt with. The result would be catastrophic! Instead of having a small glitch (which all computers go through at the current size) this new "compressed" chip could see a 100 fold increase in glitches. Can we just stop for a while to make sure the technology we have created is stable before rushing in to something blindly.
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OMG! what should we do Sporty? Get off the grid? Invest in gold? Seriously, what do you suggest?
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