Institute For The Future

Holographic Memory

Infotech has been giving to biotech for a long time. Now biotech may be giving something back.

 

Technology Review is reporting on recent research at the University of Connecticut on holographic memory systems based on genetically modified organisms. By using genetically engineered bacteria to produce a stable variant of a protein important in photosynthesis, scientists are able to use green, red and blue lasers to nudge the protein into different states to respectively write, read and erase data.

 

Of course, the more computers start to be built out of biological parts, the easier and easier it will get to stick them inside our bodies. Now you won't forget those birthdays. For anyone on the planet.

 

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