RE: FTL COMMUNICATIONS
From: "Bell, Brian K (Contractor)" <Brian.Bell@d...>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:10:10 -0500
Subject: RE: FTL COMMUNICATIONS
I've heard that one before!
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates
By then they will be sending AI holographic constructs of themselves, so
that the party they are sending it to can carry on a conversation. Then
the
AIs send updates back and forth. No. Messages will NOT be small, and the
space taken to hold them will not be inconsequential.
"Junk expands to fill all available space." - Unknown
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Brian Bell
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan white [mailto:jonw@nessie.mcc.ac.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 10:50
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: FTL COMMUNICATIONS
[snip] By the time we're talking about FTL travel, computer
storage space is likely to be of massive capacity and highly dense. If
you could carry an entire supply of messages on something the size of an