I made it back safely.
Wow! Excellent work people, in just a few hours, too.
<<Which leads to, Halobium, of which can be made,
"...a working optical bistable switch, fabricated in a monolayer by self-assembly, that reliably stores data with 10,000 molecules per bit . The molecule switches in 500 femtoseconds--that's 1/2000 of a nanosecond, and the actual speed of the memory is currently limited by how fast you can steer a laser beam to the correct spot on the memory." >>
Incredible! We are talking WAY MORE than just optical switching here - which alone would be tremendous.
We are talking also about optical storage (with attendant orders of magnitude improvements in capacity, retrieval speed, size reduction, power consumption and reliability), but we are also talking about optical and molecular level computing (storing, retrieving, transporting and switching and processing data).
This work could have vast implications down the road. The incubation of a startup like this, combined with the high innovation MRV is showing and the speed with which they are moving is exciting indeed.
We know exactly NOTHING about the immediate specific venture, but we know that this is not pure research - something very practical will come out of this in the next year or two and probably many somethings further down the road.
Awesome.
Now to unpack, then sit down to watch a young DePaul team with excellent talent (an all-american candidate, a high leaping, hard dunking guard and a good front court with a 7' center) play Duke at Duke in a nationally televised game at 6:00 central time.
We can get back to MINOR things like changes to pervasive technologies such as networking, switching, storage and computing, later.
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