IP: Holographic Storage Around the Corner?

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

From: "Robert Raisch" <raisch () internautics com>
To: "Dave Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>

Total recall
by Duncan Graham-Rowe (New Scientist)

Holograms no larger than a CD could soon be used to store huge quantities of
rewritable data, thanks to the development of a new kind of polymer. Within
five years, a German team hopes to store a terabyte of data, the equivalent of
200 CD-ROMs, on a CD-sized hologram. What's more, they believe they will be
able to access data at a rate of one gigabit per second which is 100 times
faster than a DVD drive.
Full Story: http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990123/newsstory2.html

(Yes, but will it come with a Emergency Medical Hologram with an attitude?)

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Rob Raisch, Internet Hired Gun <http://www.raisch.com/>