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They're only within our lifetimes if you require the devices to be the size of modern day silicon chips. There's nothing preventing us from building bigger devi
by ak217 14y ago
They're only within our lifetimes if you require the devices to be the size of modern day silicon chips. There's nothing preventing us from building bigger devices - I mean, my laptop and smartphone's SSDs already essentially act as caches for much larger remote storage and compute hardware.
And given that nature has managed to cram this amazing sentient device into a space the size of our skull, using a pretty inefficient design process, I'd say the problem will be not the quantity of the building blocks, but how they're organized :)
- wtallis 14y agoIf we were willing to accept SSDs being as unreliable as human memory, we could increase capacities by an order of magnitude with current technology. In fact, if SSD controller design weren't so tricky, someone would have taken advantage of this already to build a pretty decent enterprise-scale caching system.
- nickolai 14y ago>being as unreliable as human memory, That's actually considered to be a feature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthymesia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthymesia