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Computer technology reaches new heights with the recent discovery of speech-recognition software, which disregards the need for keyboards. The idea of dictation technology was introduced in 1993, when Apple launched a voice controlled-operating system.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1998
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Light motif: an optical computer stores its program in space-time
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The bit-serial optical computer stores data as light pulses. The computer uses dynamic memory instead of flip-flops to store data. Researchers Harry F. Jordan and Vincent P. Heuring expect to develop a finished product around 1998 or 2000.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1993
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Computing at the Speed of Light: emerging ways to make photonic connections to electronic microchips may dramatically change the shape of computers in the decade ahead
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Photonic connections that exchange data through laser light are expected to replace copper wiring in computers, significantly altering the way computers might look - some potentially becoming smaller, or becoming part of a car or building.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2004
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