Terabytes and Talking at Your Fingertips, Gibson

Stephen G. Gibson Jr.

Professor Bartlett
CSIT 101, Assignment 1
January 8, 2015

Terabytes and Talking at Your Fingertips

Imagine the day when the cloud crashes, Wi-Fi does not work, or cell service is not
operational. People live in a world where all their information is on accessible on their cell
phones, but if these situations were to occur we would be at a loss of a lot of information.
However, you do not have to worry about this because of a new and emerging technology that
will be available. Todd Leopold reports on how new technology will create a cell phone that will
have 1 terabyte of resistive random-access memory. He discusses how a commonly found
material, silicon oxide, is able to hold much more memory on a lot less energy. It might also be
possible to store memory into the screen you are looking out without even knowing it (Leopold).
Google and Bing were used to search for the information related to 1 terabyte mobile phones.
It was much easier to use google because Bing had more advertisements and guided you to more
shopping websites that information website. Google had more information available but still had
some sites to send you shopping.
In addition to CNNs article, two other websites weighed in on their opinion of this new
technology. Engadget.com and PCmag.com both had articles concerning this 1 terabyte
technology. PCmag.com article was written on August 5, 2013 and has not been updated since
it was written. In addition to the date it was written, people were still commenting on the article
up to 4 months ago. This article was relevant to the topic and showed other technologies that
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could be used instead of the one found in CNNs article. The author of the article was Damon
Poeter. His biography was linked to his article and appears to have several years writing for
several companies. Nothing in his biography states that he has any education or experience in
the technology field.

His information was received from the Crossbar Companys website and

another tech website. I would lean towards the fact that this information may not be accurate
because it does not reach out to other credible sources. I believe it was written to be informative
information but you could also argue that it is to sell a certain product.
The first scholarly journal was found by searching Resistant random access memory. It
was searched using the CCBC online library and under the search criteria I ensured it was from a
scholarly journal.

The second search was done by searching silicone oxide used for memory.

This was found as an academic journal in the CCBC online library. Both journals came from
reputable Universities. Both articles also had several contributors and both were peer reviewed
making them trusted information.
The internet articles were easy to find and took no time at all to search. Common terms were
used to search for the topic and many search results were not so relevant to the information. The
internet sites did not appear to have much credibility to them. I assumed that PCmag.com would
have very reliable information since they specialize in technology but that was not the case. The
writer had no background to support his article. The journal articles were harder to find. I had to
do several searches with different terms to find the information I was looking for. Once I did find
the information it was very in-depth and was supported by much scientific information. Though
it was harder to find, it was worth the time because the quality of information was credible and
very thorough.

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Works Cited (MLA)

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Poeter, Damon. "Startup's 'RRAM' Tech Promises 1TB Memory for Mobile
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