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Sun Microsystems has received a $44 million contract from the Pentagon to explore the high-risk idea of replacing wires between computer chips with laser beams.
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- I've often wondered why not.
- We have been changing electrical bits to light bits and visa versa for some time now. Now if we can just figure out how to store light. :-)
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