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After reading about this I'm left wondering what's next.
From, http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36824902
"In theory, this storage density would allow all books ever created by humans to be written on a
single post stamp," said Dr Otte.
As a proof of principle, the team encoded a section of a famous lecture called "There's plenty of
room at the bottom" by the physicist Richard Feynman on an area 100 nanometres wide.
However, despite its future promise, the approach is not ready for the real world just yet. Stable
information storage could only be demonstrated at a temperature of 77 Kelvin (-196C) and the
speed of single write and read processes is still slow - on the scale of minutes.
(anyone know how I happened to do duplicate posts here?)
From, http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36824902
"In theory, this storage density would allow all books ever created by humans to be written on a
single post stamp," said Dr Otte.
As a proof of principle, the team encoded a section of a famous lecture called "There's plenty of
room at the bottom" by the physicist Richard Feynman on an area 100 nanometres wide.
However, despite its future promise, the approach is not ready for the real world just yet. Stable
information storage could only be demonstrated at a temperature of 77 Kelvin (-196C) and the
speed of single write and read processes is still slow - on the scale of minutes.
(anyone know how I happened to do duplicate posts here?)