>From: Jim Choate <ravageat_private> >Subject: Organic memory coming to market... >To: cypherpunksat_private (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer) >Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 14:11:37 -0600 (CST) >Cc: austin-cpunksat_private (Austin Cypherpunks), > usersat_private (SSZ User Mail List), friendsat_private (Ravage's Friends) >X-Mailing-List: cypherpunksat_private >X-Loop: ssz.com >X-Language: English, Russian, German >Sender: owner-cypherpunksat_private >Precedence: first-class >Reply-To: Jim Choate <ravageat_private> >X-Loop: cypherpunksat_private > >Forwarded message: > >> X-within-URL: http://www.ix.de/ct/english/98/03/018/ > >> Ulrike Kuhlmann, Dr. J¸rgen Rink >> >> Terabytes, shrink-wrapped >> >> Is Organic Mass Memory Ready for Series Production? >> >> >> >> The news is explosive: Evidently, for the cost of a few cents, a >> Norwegian company can produce a memory module with a capacity of up to >> 170,000 gigabytes, which could fit on a bank card. >> >> Various newspapers and magazines have reported the achievements of >> Oslo-based Opticom, a company which conceivably could upset the entire >> industry with their mammoth memory made of polymers. Polymers are the >> stuff that panty hose and plastic bags are made of. The first series >> product of so-called organic memory should be on the market this >> coming year. >> >> If these speculations are valid, the computer world is on the brink of >> a revolution. The Norwegians are promising a price which is far below >> that of established products. Hard drives, CD-ROMs, tapes, as well as >> flash memory and RAM/ROM would be replaced by this new technology. The >> entire memory branch could eventually have to call it quits. >> >> And there's more: Non-volatile (mass) memory, sitting on a flexible >> substrata, as well as displays and polymer based logic, which are also >> being researched, would lead to complete change of paradigm. The >> radical jettison of components which use a relatively large amount of >> electricity and produce large amounts of heat would lead to completely >> new concepts in design, such as paper-thin computers, which can be >> rolled up to fit in a jacket pocket. Today's silicon industry would be >> obsolete. > >[text deleted]
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