Talk:Holographic memory

Well, there it goes. . . . The idea I had in 1982 to multiplex holographic storage in a transparent crystal matrix, has now been verified; now engineering work proceeds. Also in 1982, I mentioned that 'one day' I'd see this realized, and in likelihood---since I probably would not be working with any R&D teams or think tanks---I'd one day be one of those fellows who "knew the Mayor." Yet, things like 3-D holographic storage are not amenable to kitchen table prototypes. (Thanks for listening.) What is quite remarkable are the 3-4 schemes now for multi-plexing, including ones for rewriting. Ways of embedding multiplexed layers inside a transparent matrix had always seemed the engineering obstacle that must be overcome; of course, corruption from neighboring embedded layers is still not a cleanly solved issue. Collaboration or conversation anyone? --Paul K. sac89148@saclink.csus.edu

As a boy scout, I used to go on discarded magazine collection drives as a fund raiser. The scoutmaster let us keep whichever ones we were interested in, and I always took a lot of the PC Worlds, PC Magazines, Compute!s, Computer Shoppers, etc. The point of this is, I distinctly remember reading about crystal holographic storage in one of these magazines, and always wondered what happened to the idea or why it never manifested. Any clue what magazine article I'm referring to, and were you involved in writing it? 71.131.196.204 09:31, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Byte had a drive special insert c. 1996.
Sleigh 23:34, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Some text copied from HowStuffWorks?[edit]

I'm pretty sure the last few paragraphs of this entry were lifted from the HowStuffWorks article on holographic memory (or else HowStuffWorks lifted it from here). The section I'm referring to starts with "Holographic memory is a technology that uses a three dimensional medium to store data ..." and continues to the end of the main section. It seems to have been introduced in revision 49423106 on 2006-04-21 (anonymous editor from 202.88.234.114). Some of the text occurs in a different order than it appears in the HowStuffWorks article, but it's still word-for-word.

Furthermore, the added content adds little to the article and does not integrate smoothly into the flow. I'm a little hesitant to just blow it away because I'm a WikiNewbie and not really confident enough to do something like that. Please advise on how I should have handled this!

--WonderClown 17:51, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have decided, after reading a bit more about Wikipedia policies/procedures, that I am just going to delete it, and somebody else can undo that decision if desired. The following is the text I believe to be copied, and will delete:

Copyvio material deleted from here.

--WonderClown 14:53, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well done, you handled it just right - I've deleted the material from above seeing as its probably a copyvio. Kcordina ^Talk 13:39, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. Duh. --WonderClown 13:06, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Futures[edit]

I would love to see some information about the maturity of this technology and when/if it will become commercially available. Right now we are in the beginning of the Blue-ray/HD-DVD war. Is this what comes next? Also, perpendicular recording is the latest in increasing hard drive densities. After that, is Holographic memory the next step?

Source[edit]

There's an ExtremeTech article here that could be useful as a source, several interesting tidbits. GreenReaper 14:54, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]