Info Technology World WidePart Two, Number 6Technological applications in the tech area of "Distributed Storage".In February, 2004, MIT's Technology Review revealed its annual selection of new technologies that are about to affect our lives in revolutionary ways either next year or during the next decade.The following excerpts, clips, or snips, come from the above review.
6. Distributed Storage: Whether it's organizing documents, spreadsheets, music, photos, and videos or maintaining regular backup files in case of theft or a computer crash; taking care of data is one of the biggest problems facing computer users. Wouldn't it be better to store data in the various sites of the internet, a few keystrokes away from any computer, anywhere? A budding technology known as distributed storage could do just that, transforming data storage for individuals and companies by making digital files easier to maintain and access while eliminating the threat of catastrophes that obliterate information, including electrical blackouts to hard-drive failures.
The purpose is to devise efficient ways to route data through a network and to keep the tables up to date. Properly organized, distributed tables could turn the internet into a series of automatically organized, easily searchable filing cabinets. Turning the Internet into a vast filing cabinet may be just first step. Number 7, RNAi is next.
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