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To: Tom Simpson who wrote (8544)	8/10/2000 9:38:27 AM
From: Sawtooth	Respond to of 9256

<<...pure optical switching. I just read a thing on a high definition projection device based on controlling thousands of tiny tiny mirrors.>> OT: Tom; if you are interested in that area, the Lucent website has (or had) some excellent information about that. bell-labs.com ........VVVVVVVVVVVV

To: Tom Simpson who wrote (8544)	8/10/2000 12:30:36 PM
From: Robert Douglas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9256

Hi Tom, One of these days I've got to put in some real study time on the current physics of optical to electrical signal conversion, and pure optical switching. Why bother? I was reading Forbes ASAP's latest on "light technology" and came across the following paragraph, which I nominate for grandest claim of all time. Inventors also are envisioning the development of quantum computers, which would use superposed states to carry out enormous numbers of calculations at very high speed, producing the solution by resolving into one state, either particle or wave, in a manner analogous to the 0/1 code of an ordinary binary computer answer. According to one analysis, a quantum computer employing just 300 entangled photons would be more powerful than a classical computer made by melting down all the matter in a billion galaxies. On a slightly less fantastic scale, the same publication came up with their "Computer for 2010." It did have a hard disk in it but said it would be holographic with a write laser on one side and a read laser on the other. The putative capacity exceeded current ones by a factor of 1,000. I think I'll go back and look at my oil stocks. They're easier to understand.<g> Rob