So the class of materials the military is developing for it’s visual cloaking techniques (I wish I was kidding, but apparently it’s coming along) may also be useful in routing fiberoptic networks – by slowing the light, the light can be ‘stored’ and then sent, and they’re saying they should have today’s closet sized router down to the size of a fingernail by the time this technology is cooking with gas.
The more I read about quantum mechanics, the more scared and hopeful I am.
Light is made up of photons – photons are quantum. If you are manipulating light to run your computer, you have just accidentally built a near-quantum computer. Who knows, maybe it’ll be so fast that the penultimate quantum computer will be a footnote in history a few years later.