Justin Mullins reports in New Scientist that IBM researchers in the US unveiled a silicon chip that can carry light and even slow it down.
The chip demonstrates some of the essential techniques for creating high-speed photonic memory, which many researchers believe will one day make electronic memory obsolete in optical communications networks.
Wow. Maybe Ray Kurzweil and other future technology thinkers have something fundamentally different to say to educators about the nature of reality. Managing the speed of light, nanotechnology robots, viewing the earliest stars, … I find Kurzweil’s site and insight fascinating. I hope students and other educators do also. Hmm, now how do these ideas relate to a NCLB, Tablet PC and schooling?