humtibum writes: "Sciencedaily has an article on Nanoclusters of 2-8 Silver Atoms that may be the basis for new optical storage techniques: read it
here."
It seems that much of the technology news lately has been about engineers/chemists/etc working with nearly a single atom. How far off does everyone think we'll have a storage device where we can store 1 bit per atom. I'm assuming that this material would have to very pure. Will we ever be able to use any substance? This would be a perfect use for all of those pizza crusts laying around. Just pop'em into Mr. Storage and instantly you have 500 extra Tb laying for the prOn collection.
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According to the article, the film that they were actually writing to was not plain silver, but Ag2O, silver oxide.
I am !amused.
It seems that much of the technology news lately has been about engineers/chemists/etc working with nearly a single atom. How far off does everyone think we'll have a storage device where we can store 1 bit per atom. I'm assuming that this material would have to very pure. Will we ever be able to use any substance? This would be a perfect use for all of those pizza crusts laying around. Just pop'em into Mr. Storage and instantly you have 500 extra Tb laying for the prOn collection.
Yep, I never spell check.
More incorrect spellings can be found he
"According to the article, the film that they were actually writing to was not plain silver, but Ag2O, silver oxide."
at least it won't tarnish...
"Titanic was 3hr and 17min long. They could have lost 3hr and 17min from that."
IBM had PL/1, with syntax worse than JOSS,
And everywhere the language went, it was a total loss...