mini disc!!

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June 2002- Phillips demostrate the first miniature optical disc drive, capable of storing 1Gig of data on a disc about 3cm across. Apparently this new technology could be incorporated into mobile phones within the next couple of years, enabling them to store up to 25000 digital photos, something like 48 hours of MP3, and store several movies. we seem to be getting more and more information into smaller and smaller storage.
how long will it be before Star Trek technology,as we see it in the show, will seem ‘quaint’? will progress outrun our imaginations? what do you think?

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Originally posted by snooklepie:
June 2002- Phillips demostrate the first miniature optical disc drive, capable of storing 1Gig of data on a disc about 3cm across. Apparently this new technology could be incorporated into mobile phones within the next couple of years, enabling them to store up to 25000 digital photos, something like 48 hours of MP3, and store several movies. we seem to be getting more and more information into smaller and smaller storage.
how long will it be before Star Trek technology,as we see it in the show, will seem ‘quaint’? will progress outrun our imaginations? what do you think?

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SInce the advent of DVD it’s only been a matter of time before thing’s like this happened.
When the Bio-memory and Quantum computers come into fruition we will see a technology explosion the like of which we have never seen before.
Not only will it be the case where thing’s will get faster, they will get smarter, and it is hoped that the theoretical formula’s and ideas that are currently unfeasible will become a reality with the use of this advanced AI.
I’m not that excited about this development, as it’s only a storage device and can’t do much more, but it’s good in the sense that the capacity for storing information will become more compact.
The real breakthrough will happen when we can process gig’s worth of information at this size.

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