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well, to start, im far from being a genious, or really even having much knowledge of what im about to start a discussion about, but i cant stop wondering about this and im not to sure on where to post it either. (this area looks good i guess)
so, to start, lets look at yes or no. as in voltage present or not. each represents a 1 or 0 respectively when information is processed. originally, computers were meant to use the numbers 1-9, but regulating the discrete amounts of voltage to represent each was too much for the time. thus, 1 and 0 were used, and this simplified the issue enough to grow into what we have today. (correct me if im wrong please)
now, with the advent of optic fiber and its uses, (thunderbolt is a great example), we're using the presence of light, or no light to send information over a medium, and its moving faster than electrons through a conductor. that is awesome, and i hope to see this replace the use of free flowing electron (electricity) in our next generation circuits.
whats boggling me is what else can we do with light? what could we produce if instead of just using yes or no to compute a problem, we used white, green, blue, yellow, red, or any of the 278 trillion colors availible to us to compute? even on a simple scale of three colors (pick your own) how much further could we expand the compute environment? what could 5 colors provide? the ability to learn real time as humans do? we could see the use of the original variables 1-9 expressed as colors, moving faster (over distance) through a more full plane (if you will) rather than the two dimensional plane graph of 1 or 0.
granted, the ability to create the light would still be somewhat limited by the speed of flowing electrons through a LED (or whatever comes next) but the base of the coversation i would like to start here is where are we going, what can we imagine doing with it, and is this possibley more feasable than a bio engineered circuit? (something simular to our human body, which is another discussion i would like to start later)
so, to start, lets look at yes or no. as in voltage present or not. each represents a 1 or 0 respectively when information is processed. originally, computers were meant to use the numbers 1-9, but regulating the discrete amounts of voltage to represent each was too much for the time. thus, 1 and 0 were used, and this simplified the issue enough to grow into what we have today. (correct me if im wrong please)
now, with the advent of optic fiber and its uses, (thunderbolt is a great example), we're using the presence of light, or no light to send information over a medium, and its moving faster than electrons through a conductor. that is awesome, and i hope to see this replace the use of free flowing electron (electricity) in our next generation circuits.
whats boggling me is what else can we do with light? what could we produce if instead of just using yes or no to compute a problem, we used white, green, blue, yellow, red, or any of the 278 trillion colors availible to us to compute? even on a simple scale of three colors (pick your own) how much further could we expand the compute environment? what could 5 colors provide? the ability to learn real time as humans do? we could see the use of the original variables 1-9 expressed as colors, moving faster (over distance) through a more full plane (if you will) rather than the two dimensional plane graph of 1 or 0.
granted, the ability to create the light would still be somewhat limited by the speed of flowing electrons through a LED (or whatever comes next) but the base of the coversation i would like to start here is where are we going, what can we imagine doing with it, and is this possibley more feasable than a bio engineered circuit? (something simular to our human body, which is another discussion i would like to start later)