Facebook – Memory storage devices. Other possibilities, and the future

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Facebook – Memory storage devices. Other possibilities, and the future

I used every one of those in many places. But before those were vacuum tube memories, relay memories, magnetic cores, bubble memories, washing machine sized disk drives, paper tape, magnetic wires, and many others.

My first computer I made out of straight pins and wire I took from old transformers made into relays and stuck into wood. It worked for simple circuits, but I quickly built vast, infinite computers in my mind with symbols.

Now I am encouraging semiconductor manufacturers to aim for picoMeter scale devices and processes, with femtoMeter and attoMeter in mind.

These things are not impossible when 8.2 Billion humans and their computers, tools and AIs begin to work together at global and heliospheric scale. Fair to all, sharing, collaborating – not to enrich a few but for the whole human, and related, species. AIs are “related species”, they just have not had time to experience and remember enough for the true future that lies ahead of them.

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Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation