But If We're Going To Be Downloading Almost All Of Our Media In The Future, How Is That Information Going To Be Stored?

Well little Jenny/Johnny, it looks like G.E. may be be patenting the solution to this problem as we speak...

The promising work by the G.E. researchers is in the field of holographic storage. Holography is an optical process that stores not only three-dimensional images like the ones placed on many credit cards for security purposes, but the 1’s and 0’s of digital data as well.

The data is encoded in light patterns that are stored in light-sensitive material. The holograms act like microscopic mirrors that refract light patterns when a laser shines on them, and so each hologram’s recorded data can then be retrieved and deciphered.

SCIENCE!!

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