Introducing the Computer of 2010 (2000)(forbes.com)
forbes.com
Introducing the Computer of 2010 (2000)
http://www.forbes.com/asap/2000/0821/087_print.html
1 comments
"Electrons remain, doing everything they do best (switching), while photons do what they do best (traveling very, very fast)." - brilliant, no?
This is the way things work now. Electrons move very slowly, but the electric field (photons) travels at the speed of light... and that's what carries the information through a conductor.