[timer]

Our technology is exploding so fast we'll be ahead of some alien races soon. Is the movie INDEPENDENCE DAY a metaphor for US as the invading aliens? Seriously though, ever thought about color wavelengths as pixel "binary" storage vs the ancient 01100111 bit/bytes of morse code? It comes from the ENIAC days of high thermal noise in vacuum tubes : on/off as max signal. How many different colors can be expressed in a TV pixel, then 500 pixels/line and 500 lines = a BIG number expressed in a single TV picture. Then there's sound frequencies, odors; to wit, WE are still the premier general purpose computer walking around, why not copy a succesful model, instead of dit-dah-dit Q-bits, nanotubes?

[Prophet in the wilderness]

As Spock from Star Trek wold say " Hhhmmm ... Fascinating "

So ? what you are you saying.. is ? instead of using the binary code of 1s and 0s ( 0110011100011110000 ) as in used in computers today, use color wave or sound wave lenghts as some kind of pixel or pitch " Binary code " ?

[Erasmus]

Our technology is exploding so fast we'll be ahead of some alien races soon.

If we're merely average, we're already ahead of half of them.