The fastest RAM ever

Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 033601 (2013): Stopped Light and Image Storage by Electromagnetically Induced Transparency up to the Regime of One Minute

Get a load of this. Photon RAM!

 

Makes you wonder the kind of software we`ll have available to us when these advancements hit

 

If the robot maids will hang for no reason when they are going to empty the trashcan, you mean - or if interstellar quantum transmission will be sent effectively unencrypted through "Dna-book", because everyone trusts the companies providing their "secure" starcloud-services?

Or if the first three decades will be mired in laughable patent-lawsuits intended to stop anyone from robbing market-share from last generation "slower but safer tech (that doesn't cause cancer, and creates jobs, unlike new tech that is scary and Japanese or Chinese very likely!)". That in turn stops investment in new tech - and in the end results in transmission protocols and programs that are inefficient and broken. And basically will be better themed versions of 30 year old software?

No need to wonder about that.

 

Desktop only?

 

I just want variable fighters and star destroyers

 

I don't understand, why is this the fastest ram ever?

Although this has nothing to do with the speed of the RAM, the electrical wave propagation speed through RAM is almost certainly faster than the speed of the photon (when it wasn't frozen) through whatever medium it was traveling through in that science experiment.

 

If the ram doesn't make a "pew pew pew" sound when operating, i will be sorely disappointed.

 

The computer age we are having now will be kinda like the "16kb memory is enough" or whatever was said, 10 years from now

 

Varus give me back my star destroyers!

 

Because this is a proto-variant of a photon-based half-leader material. Imagine having not just ones and zeroes, but clusters of data-collections stored at each "atomic/smallest storage block". Say, design an instruction set that can be read in and out by one single switch-operation? Or to create a storage medium with internal bandwidth limited by the number of lanes of light you can have?

It's a really big deal, you know. This isn't like Alain Aspect's experiments that showed the practical application of certain very poorly understood quantum mechanics, for example. They've actually found a way to store light through a similar principle. It's serious science fiction.