On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 10:20:12PM -0800, Cory Petkovsek wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 06:28:05PM -0800, Larry Price wrote: > > On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 03:17 PM, Cory Petkovsek wrote: > > > > >Now imagine such an interference pattern being spread around the > > >internet to produce or store a vast quantitiy of information. With a > > >system that swarming could be the pre-pre-precursor to, a little piece > > >of that massive amount of information is stored on each host. Swarming > > >however is talking about having say bytes 1000-3000 on a host and > > >2750-5000 on another host. Holographic storage would be a merging of > > >digital and analog storage, the idea of a file stream becomes less > > >important replaced by the raw concept of "information". > > > > how would error-correction work in this scheme? > errors? Errors are correct on a raid system because each of the drives > contains information about the other drives. In a holographic system, > each "atom" or unit (not an elemental atom) contains information about > the whole. The more atoms there are, the more accurate information is > available and the less viable errors, inconsistencies and missing > information become.
Hmmm ... I was just reading some NTP docs. I think "Internet time" could be considered a working example of network distributed holographic information. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug