{"id":76520,"date":"2018-03-05T14:22:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T22:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/we-can-now-store-light-as-sound-and-its-a-game-changer-for-computing"},"modified":"2018-03-06T15:01:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T23:01:19","slug":"we-can-now-store-light-as-sound-and-its-a-game-changer-for-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/we-can-now-store-light-as-sound-and-its-a-game-changer-for-computing","title":{"rendered":"We Can Now Store Light as Sound, And It\u2019s a Game Changer For Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zCdviPEhsyY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last year, scientists took a big step towards creating the next generation of computers.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time ever, they stored light-based information as sound waves on a computer chip \u2014 something the researchers compared to capturing lightning as thunder.<\/p>\n<p>While that might sound a little strange, this conversion is critical if we ever want to shift from our current, inefficient electronic computers, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/computers-that-process-data-at-light-speed-will-be-even-more-efficient-than-we-thought\">light-based computers<\/a> that move data at the speed of light.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/light-has-been-stored-as-sound-for-the-first-time\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/light-has-been-stored-as-sound-for-the-first-time<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, scientists took a big step towards creating the next generation of computers. For the first time ever, they stored light-based information as sound waves on a computer chip \u2014 something the researchers compared to capturing lightning as thunder. While that might sound a little strange, this conversion is critical if we ever want [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76568,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76520\/revisions\/76568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}