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NeuroStor memory technology
"NeuroStor...an information-age startup that had learned to mimic the neurological structure of the human brain to develop faster, higher-capacity digital storage devices."
Any truth to this line in chapter one? Well, maybe. Already there are software-based neural network applications that can learn basic ideas on their own. In these applications, the network is given a set of simple rules and builds on them, sharing information and creating complex ideas out of the simple network structure.
As far as hardware, many computer scientists believe three
dimensional molecular computing is feasible, and our knowledge
of the human brain is growing exponentially. So is brain scanning
and mathematical models of neurons and neural structures.
It's thought by some scientists that we could put together
a model of how the human brain works within the next twenty-five
years, in effect reverse-engineering it, except that machines
are more accurate and less forgetful than our biological version.
In Rift similar technology already exists, which is
obviously not the case in today's real world, but perhaps
the idea isn't as far in the future as we might think.
Check
out the cool work Stephen Thaler is doing.