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OUR Social ergonomics

Individual development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a

Protocol:

He who controls the interface controls the system.

NEWSTRACKER new technology Lucent now joins IBM's previously announced research FROM

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Technology Journal

jeff.harrow@compaq.com (

http://www.hied.ibm.com/multiversity/Sum98/holograph.html and

http://www.research.ibm.com/topics/popups/deep/storage ) into harnessing holography as a storage technique.

Lucent's plan

http://www.lucent.com/press/0899/990811.nsb.html), unlike IBM's "sugar cube," is to create CD-ROM sized holographic disks where data isn't stored only on its surface, but entirely throughout the transparent medium, yielding 125 gigabytes on a removable disk. And due to a characteristic of holography, data will be accessible in million-bit chunks at speeds 25-times faster than current DVD drives.

According to Bell Labs' Alastair Glass,
"With this capacity, the information in a typical large university library could be stored on about 10 holographic disks. Future generations of devices are expected to store around a terabyte on a single disk with about 150 times the transfer rates of current DVDs."

Not bad, and, according to the Aug. 11 Electronic Buyer's News, brought to our attention by RCFoC reader Alan Maltzman, Lucent expects a joint development agreement with Imation to yield a commercial product within two years.

IF holographic storage isn't enough? Well, then I'd have to consider C3D's plans for a new type of optical storage , reported in the Oct. 1 Computergram.

It seems that they've developed a "fluorescent multi-layered storage technology" that uses regular (incoherent) light rather than a laser to store data in (initially) up to ten layers within a transparent disk. C3D expects its first product to be a read-only disk ("FMD-ROM") holding 140 gigabytes (yes, that's eight times larger than a DVD), which will be able to read data at 1 gigabyte/second (

http://www.c-3d.net/home.htm). Indeed, according to the Oct. 4 BBC News (

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_464000/464846.stm), they have demonstrated a "...fully-working prototype!"

But perhaps even more interesting is this technology's promise of small cards, both read-only and read-write, which will be able to hold 10 gigabytes of data for PDAs, digital cameras, and other digital appliances.

Now if they do bring this to market, imagine the possibilities, especially for pocket appliances: A pocket GPS receiver could easily contain the entire US road database, which today requires a CD-ROM (in fact, it could hold much of the world's road maps); your digital camera would never (well, 'never' is a dangerous word to use) run out of storage for digital snapshots; an Ebook could happily hold a respectable portion of the Library of Congress to satisfy your reading needs on a long flight; and more. And future products from this technology,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_464000/464846.stm C3D claims, could include a disk holding more than 1,000 gigabytes -- a terabyte in the palm of your hand!

storage could soon be getting MUCH more interesting, as C3D works with other companies to turn their ideas into commercial products over the next one to two years... (

http://www.c-3d.net/product.htm)

· But Don't Count-Out Magnetics! -- On the other hand, a group at IBM may make even C3D's planed products seem small. Although people have been decrying the end of the road for magnetic storage for a while, innovative people just insist on coming up with ways to continue to dramatically increase the storage density of rotating magnetic disk technology. Brought to our attention by RCFoC reader Kenneth Lacrosse, the Oct. 4 News.com (

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-805990.html? tag=st.ne.1002.thed.1003-200-805990) describes IBM's new ability to store 35.3 billion bits (4.3 gigabytes) of data in each square inch of a disk's surface. That's a 75% increase over their latest capabilities, announced only five months ago!

But what does density like this really mean?
"...each square inch of disk space could hold 3 hours and 15 minutes of MPEG-2 compressed video, about the equivalent of two full-length movies; nearly 77 hours of MP3 compressed audio; or the text from 2,187,5000 sheets of double-spaced typewritten paper, which would make a stack 730 feet high, or laid end-to-end, would stretch some 380 miles, which is farther than the distance from San Francisco to Los Angeles."

That's in each square inch!!

It means a standard 3.5 inch PC hard disk drive holding a half-terabyte. It means products within two years, according to IBM's director of recording head technology, Bob Scranton. (

http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19991006S0002)

It truly boggles the mind...

But, sigh, even with these incredible innovations, the rate at which we're generating information assures we'll continue to fill up every digital container that hits the shelves. Which will lead to further innovation and even larger devices that we'll fill up...

The new school

What could an relevant on-line school be like.

• Color is better than black and white.
• Three dimensions is better than two.
• Round is better than flat.
• Fast is more successful than slow.

Civilization progresses with greater literacy, greater attention to the laws of man and nature, and greater freedom of participation.

Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Instruction is slow, knowledge is cut into fragments and reassembled, creative participation is discouraged at all levels.

The iron law of bureaucracy operates freely in almost all schools.

Students in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors are black and white.

There are several clear themes as we move from two dimensions to many:

1. ) Knowledge is not only transferred but invented a lot of learning takes place in the process of invention

2.)

The organizing themes are tasks not subjects , Knowledge is organized around functions not disciplines

3.) there is creative interaction between teachers and learners and less distinctions between actors and classes.

The word is

convergence - Technology, communications, human organization, marketing, finance, and further explorations of the future rushing in upon us.

The NEXUM project:

http://www.wiredbrain.com/nexum.htm

The design of the general communications and computing device.

Design teams of teachers ( from around the world ) and students from anywhere working on the interface of communications technology, processing capacity, storage and data transfer compression, marketing, finance, human machine interface ( ergonomics

http://www.wiredbrain.com/ergonomics.htm ) because the specialist now has to consider bandwidth, chip capacities, applications, service systems, distribution systems, content and market demand factors all in one organized package.

Management, information technology, marketing, human resources and production need to work together. Traditional products such as automobiles and space rockets and atomic ships has advanced some in design integration but computers still have a way to go - the

NEXUM

must leap frog current compartment thinking into new dimensions of systems analysis.

How is systems analysis different

from what has been used in the last 40 years. It is more colorful and has more dimensions.

It becomes much more complex where there are many clients, with many applications, using different languages and protocols. A great server should ask and how do we establish an interface, what language do you use, what program do you want, what operating system does it use, and can I remember all this the next time we make contact ?

Amazon.com has shown the way within one set of protocols of how to be client centric. Every store both e and non-e, should be able to track several open ended data bases - inventory, catalog, store, client, sales person, so as to show what exists and who is buying it. Wal-mart and Builders Square, Office supply and Sears should have a the catalog and inventory on line at the cash registrar and on-line for the buyers with items, pictures, prices as well as complete lists of any clients or sales person’s recorded sales. It world make it a lot easier for contractors or anyone buying many different items.

A friendly server would connect such data bases to user applications such as financial records and market research. Can any client using different tools access open records for different purposes, in different languages ? Can suppliers or comparative shoppers or programs that search for best buys ? How would the Nexum, a simple communications device, use server software to find the best buy ? Who do you compare features ? Models, grades, standards, ? All kinds of applications not invented need to glide easily into existing systems.

The invention of credit, degrees, payment systems is easy

Color is better than black and white. Three dimensions is better than two. Round in better than flat. Current instruction is gray and flat - it needs to be colorful and round. Students in rows reviewing text books under the control of an instructor is clearly colorless and flat. Every once in awhile there is a little burst of color or a dark pit but the surface is mostly two dimensional and the colors are black and white.

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