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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2662373, member: 27832"]<blows whistle, throws flag></p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry, but you've been had.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was able to track down the work you're referring to, published in the noted computer-engineering journal ZeroHedge. The post in question hints darkly at the computing power that They (you know, <b>Them</b>) use in Their efforts to track and analyze our every post, every word, every thought.</p><p><br /></p><p>The problem is that <b>it's still science fiction</b>. This is NOT a technology that exists yet, even in the NSA or other three-letter Powers That Be. Sure, the spooks have vast computing power, and I'm sure they've got some experimental stuff that's beyond the published state of the art -- but there are about a dozen major breakthroughs between us and fully-optical processors. The best we've got at the moment is probably some really fast optical routers, to go with those optical transceivers -- but the <i>speed</i> gain from a beam of light over a good transmission line is only a third or so. The big savings would come from power and geometry, letting us pack stuff more tightly. But like I said, lots of breakthroughs to go.</p><p><br /></p><p>My background: yeah, I'm "in IT", but no, I'm not a spook. But I spent a very long time in academia, and I still follow the frontiers a bit -- enough to know that we're still quite a long way from "optical microprocessors".</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand, I'd be <i>really excited</i> to find out I'm wrong, so please feel free to link some reports making me look silly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2662373, member: 27832"]<blows whistle, throws flag> Sorry, but you've been had. I was able to track down the work you're referring to, published in the noted computer-engineering journal ZeroHedge. The post in question hints darkly at the computing power that They (you know, [B]Them[/B]) use in Their efforts to track and analyze our every post, every word, every thought. The problem is that [B]it's still science fiction[/B]. This is NOT a technology that exists yet, even in the NSA or other three-letter Powers That Be. Sure, the spooks have vast computing power, and I'm sure they've got some experimental stuff that's beyond the published state of the art -- but there are about a dozen major breakthroughs between us and fully-optical processors. The best we've got at the moment is probably some really fast optical routers, to go with those optical transceivers -- but the [I]speed[/I] gain from a beam of light over a good transmission line is only a third or so. The big savings would come from power and geometry, letting us pack stuff more tightly. But like I said, lots of breakthroughs to go. My background: yeah, I'm "in IT", but no, I'm not a spook. But I spent a very long time in academia, and I still follow the frontiers a bit -- enough to know that we're still quite a long way from "optical microprocessors". On the other hand, I'd be [I]really excited[/I] to find out I'm wrong, so please feel free to link some reports making me look silly.[/QUOTE]
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