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Thursday, July 26, 2018 10:14:56 AM
Photonic integrated circuits are well on the road to revolutionizing datacom and a host of other optoelectronic applications.
How does that compare to mapping the darkside of the moon or making computers see better?
In fact there is much important work that can be done with or without the optoelectronic apps but without is better.
We toured the Busch brewery in St. Louis when it was probably at the cutting edge. The only human that seemed to be working was one with cases of beer on a hand truck headed for the planning office.
Two of the people with sitting jobs actually had atrocious jobs - surely worse than cleaning toilets. They had to inspect the filled and capped bottles moving by on a belt to see there were no missing caps, unfilled bottles or dead mice in the bottle.
Imagine doing that for 8 hours a day. Or even 4 hours a day with likely relief. One might understand then how even a dead rat was once missed as best I can recall.
Turpin's tiny, cool photonic computers could probably do the job flawlessly working 24/7 but do far more complex tasks like "seeing" incoming ICBM's.
Apologize for interrupting the real excitement with a dreary photonic future for maybe us or China or?
By the way, the darkside of the moon looks pretty much like the visible side. Bummer.
Best, Terry
How does that compare to mapping the darkside of the moon or making computers see better?
In fact there is much important work that can be done with or without the optoelectronic apps but without is better.
We toured the Busch brewery in St. Louis when it was probably at the cutting edge. The only human that seemed to be working was one with cases of beer on a hand truck headed for the planning office.
Two of the people with sitting jobs actually had atrocious jobs - surely worse than cleaning toilets. They had to inspect the filled and capped bottles moving by on a belt to see there were no missing caps, unfilled bottles or dead mice in the bottle.
Imagine doing that for 8 hours a day. Or even 4 hours a day with likely relief. One might understand then how even a dead rat was once missed as best I can recall.
Turpin's tiny, cool photonic computers could probably do the job flawlessly working 24/7 but do far more complex tasks like "seeing" incoming ICBM's.
Apologize for interrupting the real excitement with a dreary photonic future for maybe us or China or?
By the way, the darkside of the moon looks pretty much like the visible side. Bummer.
Best, Terry
