When former President Barack Obama launched the BRAIN Initiative five years ago (SN: 2/22/14, p. 16), the goal was to support technologies that would, in part, «open new doors to explore how the brain records, processes, uses, stores and
retrieves vast quantities of information,» according to the White House.
Using nanotechnology, an advanced civilization might well be able to
encode vast quantities of information into a tiny, self - replicating machine and send this machine through a dimensional gateway.
Today's students require strategies that support their acquisition of knowledge, allow them to save their notes across devices, permit them to search
through vast quantities of information, and share their learning with the rest of their community.
Long desired by researchers seeking new ways to treat, cure, and even prevent brain disorders, this picture will fill major gaps in our current knowledge and provide unprecedented opportunities for exploring exactly how the brain enables the human body to record, process, utilize, store, and
retrieve vast quantities of information, all at the speed of thought.
Dr Cheryl Hurkett from the University of Leicester's Centre for Interdisciplinary Science said: «An important part of being a professional scientist (as well as many other professions) is the ability to make connections between
the vast quantity of information students have at their command, and being able to utilise the knowledge and techniques they have previously mastered in a new or novel context.
Available at all times, usable in all contexts, with situational awareness, access to
vast quantities of information, and human language cognition abilities to interpret that data — it will make an awesome learning tool.
Information about companies financial situations was available for anyone who took the time to visit a company's website and spend the time reading
the vast quantities of information posted there.
With
the vast quantities of information available on the Internet, you really have no excuse not to research thoroughly.