On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 06:28:05PM -0800, Larry Price wrote: > On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 03:17 PM, Cory Petkovsek wrote: > > >Now imagine such an interference pattern being spread around the > >internet to produce or store a vast quantitiy of information. With a > >system that swarming could be the pre-pre-precursor to, a little piece > >of that massive amount of information is stored on each host. Swarming > >however is talking about having say bytes 1000-3000 on a host and > >2750-5000 on another host. Holographic storage would be a merging of > >digital and analog storage, the idea of a file stream becomes less > >important replaced by the raw concept of "information". > > how would error-correction work in this scheme? errors? Errors are correct on a raid system because each of the drives contains information about the other drives. In a holographic system, each "atom" or unit (not an elemental atom) contains information about the whole. The more atoms there are, the more accurate information is available and the less viable errors, inconsistencies and missing information become.
> as for the analog/digital bit; you should know better > information can be represented in either a discreet or continuous form > you can differentiate a continuous representation into a discreet one, > and > you can approximate a continuous representation in a discreet format. > But to speak of a given representation as being both is a contradiction. I did not write both, I wrote "a merging of digital and analog storage". Holographic technology exists today. Is it digital, is it analog? I would say analog perhaps, but it is no longer what we think of as a traditional analog system. When you take a holographic plate with an image of an apple and break it in two, you don't get two halves, instead you have two apples at lower resolution. Neither analog nor digital technologies can do that. Raid does it by actually duplicating or triplicating data. The holographic prinicpal is information about the whole in every part. DNA, which contains all of the information necessary to grow any organism in each molecule, is great example of the holographic principle, which lends itself to the holographic brain theories and extends out to the concept of a holographic universe, which is a _very_ compelling idea. Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot is a great overview of these ideas produced by Neurophysiologist, Karl Pibram and Physicist David Bohm and others. > -- > "The Internet is falling" --C. Little 2003 "It's alive... The internet is alive!" -- Dr. Frankenstein, 2201 Cory -- Cory Petkovsek Adapting Information Adaptable IT Consulting Technology to your (541) 914-8417 business [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.AdaptableIT.com _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
