Light-hearted.
Computer designers have long desired to harness particles of light, known as photons, to carry out computing tasks. Photons move faster than electrons, so optical computers work faster. They can also engage in parallel processing quite easily because photons are unlike electrons in that they do no...
| Published in: | Economist Vol. 326; pp. 86 - 87 |
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| Format: | Article |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
1/9/1993
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