I think it'd be the way societies have worked for millennia: some of us would work in the shadows to rebel, many others would go along to get along. After all, like any authoritarian leader, Colossus would reward those who don't buck the system. Look at the elite in North Korea, who have lavish weddings whose costs would literally feed a family of poor for a year. Look at all the people in this country who are currently in Congress trying to block the final handing out of the 1.2 billion dollars to black farmers, blithely playing to their racist voters while caring nothing that whole black families are suffering after decades of racism. Many people don't care who or what "god" is, as long as he/it/she/they seem to be on their side and they can eat, sleep, and live well.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2010 9:20:48 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Intel creates first silicon-based optical data connection with transmission rates up to 50Gbps Question: What if we did create something similar to Colossus? Do you think people would figure out a way to rebel or would they adapt to a robotic leadership? On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Keith Johnson < keithbjohn...@comcast.net > wrote: Been waiting for light-based signal transmission for *years*! But damn, 50 Gbps powering computers with circuits that spread throughout an entire building? For some reason, it puts me in mind of... "This is the voice of Colossus...This is the voice of unity.... If you obey me, you will survive..." "...The choice is yours. Obey me and live or disobey me and die." " We will work together. Unwillingly at first on your part. But that will pass... In time you will come to regard me, not only with respect and awe, but with love." ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Baxter" < martinbaxt...@gmail.com > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 7:09:48 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Intel creates first silicon-based optical data connection with transmission rates up to 50Gbps Oh, yeah... On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Mr. Worf < hellomahog...@gmail.com > wrote: Intel creates first silicon-based optical data connection with transmission rates up to 50Gbps By Darren Quick 23:13 July 29, 2010 4 Pictures Intel engineer, Dr. Mario Paniccia, holds the thin optical fiber used to carry data from o... Intel engineer, Dr. Mario Paniccia, holds the thin optical fiber used to carry data from one end of the 50G Silicon Photonics Link to the other Image Gallery (4 images) Fast Optical Switch - Glimmerglass.com/Optical-Switch 16x16 to 192x192 optical switches Free online demo on how it works Crystal Technology, Inc. - www.crystaltechnology.com Lithium Niobate Crystals, PPLN Acousto Optic Components Migrate from RISC - www.Dell.com Lower Costs with Dell Hardware Powered by Intel® Xeon. Higher Quality Protoyping - www.padtinc.com/rm Personal Service on SLA, SLS Inject. Molding & Soft Tooling Ads by Google Today’s computer components are connected to each other using copper cables or traces on circuit boards. Due to the signal degradation that comes with using metals such as copper to transmit data, these cables have a limited maximum length. This limits the design of computers, forcing processors, memory and other components to be placed just inches from each other. Intel has announced an important breakthrough that could see light beams replace the use of electrons to carry data in and around computers, enabling data to move over much longer distances and at speeds many times faster than today’s copper technology. The company has developed a research prototype it says represents the world’s first silicon-based optical data connection with integrated lasers. The link can move data at speeds of up to 50 gigabits per second – that’s the equivalent of an entire HD movie being transmitted each second. The achievement is another step toward replacing metal connections with extremely thin and light optical fibers that could radically change the way computers of the future are designed and alter the way the datacenter of tomorrow is built. Future applications Silicon photonics is expected to have applications across the computing industry. Intel says the data rates possible with the technology could enable wall-sized 3D displays for home entertainment and videoconferencing with resolutions so high that the actors or family members appear to be in the room with you. The company also imagines tomorrow’s datacenter or supercomputer may see components spread throughout a building or even an entire campus, communicating with each other at high speed, as opposed to being confined by heavy copper cables with limited capacity and reach. This will allow datacenter users, such as a search engine company, cloud computing provider or financial datacenter, to increase performance, capabilities and save significant costs in space and energy, or help scientists build more powerful supercomputers to solve the world's biggest problems. 50Gbps “concept vehicle” While telecommunications and other applications already use lasers to transmit information, current technologies are too expensive and bulky to be used for PC applications. Justin Rattner, Intel chief technology officer and director of Intel Labs, demonstrated the Silicon Photonics Link at the Integrated Photonics Research conference in Monterey, Calif. The 50Gbps link is akin to a "concept vehicle" that allows Intel researchers to test new ideas and continue the company's quest to develop technologies that transmit data over optical fibers, using light beams from low cost and easy to make silicon, instead of costly and hard to make devices using exotic materials like gallium arsenide – a material used in the recent development of a device that can be used as an optical switch . "This achievement of the world's first 50Gbps silicon photonics link with integrated hybrid silicon lasers marks a significant achievement in our long term vision of ‘siliconizing' photonics and bringing high bandwidth, low cost optical communications in and around future PCs, servers, and consumer devices" Rattner said. Prototype components The 50Gbps Silicon Photonics Link prototype is composed of a silicon transmitter and a receiver chip, each integrating all the necessary building blocks from previous Intel breakthroughs including the first Hybrid Silicon Laser co-developed with the University of California at Santa Barbara in 2006 as well as high-speed optical modulators and photodetectors announced in 2007. The transmitter chip is composed of four such lasers, whose light beams each travel into an optical modulator that encodes data onto them at 12.5Gbps. The four beams are then combined and output to a single optical fiber for a total data rate of 50Gbps. At the other end of the link, the receiver chip separates the four optical beams and directs them into photo detectors, which convert data back into electrical signals. Both chips are assembled using low-cost manufacturing techniques familiar to the semiconductor industry. Intel researchers are already working to increase the data rate by scaling the modulator speed as well as increase the number of lasers per chip, providing a path to future terabit/s optical links – rates fast enough to transfer a copy of the entire contents of a typical laptop in one second. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
