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IBM races to make hi-tech memory

Posted April 11, 2008 8:49 AM

From BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition:

Handheld gadgets storing thousands of hours of film footage could soon be a reality thanks to IBM scientists. Researchers for the computer giant are working on a technology known as racetrack memory which uses tiny magnetic boundaries to store data. In a paper in the journal Science, the team at IBM's Almaden lab in California outline ways to make the building blocks of the novel storage medium.

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04/13/2008 12:45 AM

The development looks interesting, thanks.

No doubt we shall get down to the atomic lattice type of memory, within 20 years.

Power requirements are then extremely small.

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04/14/2008 4:14 AM

Why not spend some time in trying to expand the human capability. There are papers around which indicate the the synaptic pathways have a cross linking capability that exceeds the number of positively charged electrons in the known cosmos, and we are said to use only 2% of this capcity? You could then network the heads, and then see what human capability is. Maybe current human genius is in fact the norm at say 8 or 9% capacity?

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04/14/2008 5:31 PM

Forgetfulness is a blessing. I don't want to have 50X as much junk in my head.
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