On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:35:37 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>>> So if this technology is the future... where is it? How come it's
>>> completely vanished off the face of existence?
>>
>> It hasn't - some of it didn't work out.
> 
> I meant optical computing specifically. Nobody talks about it any more.
> So what happened to it?

I've read a few articles on it recently.  Seems that *some* people are 
still talking about it.

>>> So why is absolutely nobody using this stuff? I can only imagine that
>>> the answer is the same as for the 3D IC. In other words, "it's too
>>> expensive" combined with "we haven't reached the hard limits of
>>> current methods yet".
>>
>> There is a certain amount of technological inertia to overcome -
>> current methods are cheap, developing new methods costs a lot of money,
>> especially when you start talking about large-scale production.
>>
>> So in essence, you're correct. :)
> 
> Heh. Thought so.
> 
> In that case, presumably once current technologies start hitting
> hard(er) limits, new ones will start to be viable.

Yep.

Jim

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