You would not even be able to access or read this blog & I would not be able to publish it without global fiber optic networking using IR laser pumped special low noise low loss optical fibers to move big data around the world at high throughput rates in telecom systems that enable vast parts of global economies to function more efficiently with less paper waste, faster, cheaper & better, but lets keep the lights on, or power grids working, because a global power outage would take away all these benefits & send mankind back into a violent dark age of chaos.
Even in cloud computer server clusters in data networking centers they use high bandwidth optical interconnects called InfiniBand IB, which enables computer networking in high performance computing with very low latency & high data throughput, or incredible data transfer speeds. This can be used within the server or computer node or to connect server blades / models to other nodes. Scalable utilizing a switched fabric networking topology or layout, many of the world's fastest super computers make use of these technology.
Internet will run out of addressees, because of crazy growth, but not for a long time! With IPv4 the 32bit address system already ran out of new domains, so iPv6 introduced 128bit address system able to serve up 1,028X more addresses, enough to keep the internet wild for at least the foreseeable future. Watch this YouTube video https://youtu.be/vo5glK9czIE?si=UAyYMq3V2J3pZUYs
Nvidia subsidiary Mellanox manufactures switched & host bus adapters, using InfiniBand technology in large database products & in very large computer systems. IB competitive with other high bandwidth data exchange technologies such as Ethernet, Intel Omni-Path & Fibre Channel.
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| InfiniBand Trade Association promotes IB technology |
I started researching optical networking technology in elementary school, motivated to learn how light moving over fiberoptic that I saw in a house hold decoration, could be used to connected computer in networks online, which was dial-up AOL at the time. My parents purchased me an MS-DOS computer made by IBM with a green on black CRT display, keyboard, mouse & power hungry heat emitting large computer case filled with the mainboard, power supply, chips, modem, etc that we would hook up to the phone line when no one was using the phone, so that I could access text based web rings about physics, high voltage, lasers & DIY projected related to STEM.
This history with lasers then bloomed with the acquisition of many books about laser technology, directed energy weapons, emerging uses of laser fiber optic telecommunications systems, super computer interconnect technology, fiber optic internet or broadband, and many other related ideas about fast switching bright highly narrow angle emission LED's to send information as pulses of light, and similar VSEL vertical side emitting diode lasers that can be modulated on off at gigahertz rates, including multi-color multiplexing so that one fiber can carry many channels of date & many other technologies related to inefficiency of gas lasers, the flash lamp synthetic crystal rod pumping lasers.
I was at a time share sale pitch presentation with my parents in 1992, when I saw one of the sale guys using a handheld red diode laser pen to visually highlight items being projected onto the screen with all the sale pitch information, circling the hot sizzle information to sell that steak, but it was obviously a high pressure sales setting since we got a portable handheld TV w/ removable metal telescoping antenna, B&W LCD that picked up broadcast TV in very low resolution, lots of noice between channels selected by a rotary resistive dial on the side. It was silver, flipped open with a mirror that reflected the screen, had black user interface control switches & even a 1/8" headphone jack, valued at about $100 back then, it continued to work for many years as a kind of electronic novel that ran on 4 AA batteries. Just like this one I found on listed on Ebay for $25, thought I am not buying it. See image below.
He-Ne Laser
When I got to high school I brought my Milles Griot He-Ne laser & power supply to my computer science class, but someone stole it while I was in the bathroom & I never figure out who took it as no one fessed up. My teach Ole penalized the entire class by lowering everyones grade score because the person who stole it would not admit it, hope the peer pressure would create a admission of guilt, but it did not work & only irritated me & the other students. Ole did not lower my grade, since I was the one who had my expensive compact sealed gas laser stolen. Ole had a Heath kit He-Ne laser in his office, something he built as a kit as a teenager that inspired him to go into computer science. He was a senior software developer at IBM, then Microsoft before retiring in 1991 to become a high school computer tech teacher, the class where I learned how to make Adobe Flash animations, how to write web sites in HTML, and how to program shell scripting inside Windows OS to automate tasks or produce software functionality.
PDA, MID, RIM
It was during high school when I notice parents of other students & some of the staff at my high school were users of mobile internet device MID's like Palm Pilot & similar from DELL, at a time when 1GPRS cellular phones in candy bar shape & bright colors made by Nokia were very trendy & popular on Air Touch wireless service. These handheld computer personal digital assistant or PDA devices are obviously the precursor to the first real smartphones made by RIM known as blackberries, with expensive OTA store apps, during the 2G & 3G mobile data speeds era. In 2007 Apple launched the first true smartphone with the original iPhone first generation.
OG iPhone 2007
The partnership & battle between Samsung & Apple ranged on from there. Samsung with user replaceable batteries made fun of Apple fixed sealed non-user replaceable batteries in advertising videos showing Apple iPhone users stuck cable charging near a wall outlet as the slick dude in the video opens the back of his Samsung smartphone, pops the spent battery out & puts a new battery in & keeps walking, to make fun of Apple. They were in a legal feud for many years over patent infringement or something.
Samsung AMOLED Smartphone & Phablet
I tried Samsung Galaxy Note 2 as my first smartphone. I had been playing with iPhone Touch 2 & iPod Touch 4 for many years, and the 4th 64GB iPod touch still works & I use it with wired ear buds to listen to iTunes music I stored on back in the Core 2 duo Unibody MacBook, with just such a working laptop still in my personal collection.
Not Smarter, Smartphones Cause Thumb & Neck Problems & Blue Light Sleep Loss
People looking down at their phones like they are staring at their feet for hours on end, often near bedtime, scrolling with only their thumbs, this causes many health issues related to text neck, synovial joint damage to the thumb joint, & many problems with sleep disorders from staring into bright screens containing blue stimulating light color, though they have added orange screen night modes now as the science of the eyes peak sensitive to 555nm green light & other science related to light pollution induced sleeping disorders, related to how our brain uses nerves in the eye sensitive to light to regular the circadian rhythm or sleep wake cycle of the human body! Not exactly all roses and sunshine putting the internet into peoples hands over wireless data networks. Many idiots play with their smartphones while driving dangerously distracted from using their smartphones while driving, even though it's illegal & $1000 fine locally if the police pull someone over and write a citation for distracted driving through use of smartphone, ticket.
Internet Abuse Making People Ignorant or Stupid with Misinformation & Worse
The tide pods challenge, moon landing hoax theories, flat earth theorists, vaccine conspiracy theorists, and all sorts of other FUD or fear uncertainty & doubt mongering online by trolls looking to increase social division or harass people, with many chided being bullied online now on social media networks after school, such that schools have a hard time cracking down on online bullying, and the parents are often checked out, unaware or out of touch with the online bulling too. So children today are under the stress of the 24 hour per day internet access debacle or information overload + many other problems.
Screwing Off, Playing Games, Not Reading Wikipedia
I had early hopes that the internet & worldwide web would effectively improve public access to information or democratize access to online information in a way that would improve the intelligence of the general public, and for some that might be true, but there exits a growing body of evidence that the overuse of information technology might actually be making people who do that not only get information overload but actually brain damage & a corresponding loss of executive function or becoming less intelligent from the overuse of their smartphones. Smartphones & tablets abused by small children seem to be having a negative effect on their social intelligence, making them more selfish & less socially intelligent, such that they are harder to parent or interact with, constantly seeking dopamine hits from gaming & web surfing on smartphones that there parents sometimes use as an electronic nanny to distract the children so the parents can get a break from the high energy small children who are absorbed into the games or apps on smartphones & tablets they play with, like Minecraft. I see the top keywords that people are typing into Google Search & know what most people are doing online, a lot of graven images for example, photos & videos of people with very limited clothing or none at all.
My Computers
My daily now a silver M2 MacBook Pro & black Asus F17 gaming laptop. I rock an aluminum wifi Apple Watch Series 8 on my write wrist & an analog automatic Seiko 5 with orange dial & stainless case & band on my left wrist. Regular white iPhone 14 my current smartphone. Meg daily are mint green iPhone 12 mini, space grey Apple Watch Series 5 & dark blue M2 MacBook Air. I write most of my blog postings & X "Twitter" posts on the 3GHz 6 core Intel Core i5 2019 iMac Retina 4K 21.5" desktop computer on my desk.
Photonic Computers
Optical computer based on Raman emission silicon photonics direct band gap etched into CMOS lasers can enable optical processors to communicate with optical memory modules, & optical networking, with much faster performance than is possible with even gold wires. You will see optical computers emerge in the year 2035 when room temperature quantum computers are widely commercialized by IBM, similar to TruNorth from 2014, but running on a 65w pizza box sized computer.
xTool F1 Diode + Fiber Fast Laser Engraver
Last night after watching some YouTube videos about laser engraving, I hopped on Amazon & did aggressive product research comparing the LaserPecker4 to the xTool F1, and went with the F1 because it was cheaper, better software, better quality, safer to use, made better, better customer support, and this morning Meg approved $580 spent on getting the slide table & rotary attachment & a pair of laser safety glasses that covers the 190nm–460nm & 800nm–1100nm range of laser light from the 10w blue laser diode & 2w IR fiber laser emissions, even though the green cover of the F1 protects the eyes when its closed, when working with the slide table or rotary encoder, it will leak dangerous laser light & eye protection from watt+ energy optical lasers very important, since you can't buy new eyes yet! So far about $2400 into the kit, but I already have customer asking me to engrave stuff for them after I mentioned that I had purchased a laser engraver!
I thought the 2002 (year I graduated high school) airborne laser built into a modified 747 was really cool, a oxygen iodine high flow rate high powered laser with a nose cone optic that can shoot down ICBMs & other military assets belonging to hostile nations, like Russia during the Cold War. See the wikipedia information about that one! Or head to Wikipedia for the deep TL:DR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YAL-1
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