'Mind at Light Speed' is the ultimate research into artificial life - and how it will change the world in which we live. Researchers are building computers that use light instead of electricity. These machines will be so fast and efficient that they will generate a new kind of artificial life.

While electric charge may have always done the calculating in our computers and inside our brains, we can build machines that compute with light, with photons. Such optical computers would operate at light speed and in the process redefine artificial life. That technology is happening today.

The much discussed bandwidth changes is being driven by fibre optic cables that make optical computing inevitable. Photons that travel down those cables will soon stop not at the curb in front of the house but flow right inside your home and inside your computer, and the photons will move right onto the neuromorphic chips. These machines will be the first light computers. Their hard drives will be holograms able to access everything at once and, in time, their switches will become quantum switches. If machines ever become beings, their minds, will become a stream of light.

This book combines specialist information in linguistics, information systems and technology, physics, and micro engineering, which reveals options on the future of intelligence, and of our lives.

Mark Bower

Director, NextWave.IT Ltd

www.nextwaveit.biz

enquiry@nextwaveit.biz