12.8 Petabytes, You Say?

MadUndergrad writes "Dr. Jonathan Spanier from Drexel University has come up with a novel way to greatly increase data storage density: water. Specifically, they propose using hydroxyl ions to stabilize minute ferroelectric wires. These wires could be many times smaller than what is possible today, enabling data densities in the neighborhood of 12-13 PB per cubic centimeter. While there are still many problems to be resolved before drives using these can be manufactured this technology does seem promising. For one thing, it would be non-volatile, but could apparently be made to act as RAM. The fact that this is coming out of a university gives me hope that this technology won't turn out to be just so much vapor."

Comments

Re:Oblig. Dexter's Laboratory Joke:

[Red_Foreman]

It's funny because it's not funny? Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.

This sentence should be gut busting hysterical then:

Tommy was a toaster that ran rubber marathons in search of an autonomous chicken breast marinated with intergalactic motor oil.

I know what Dexter's Laboratory is, by the way. It still doesn't make Trip Master Karma-Whore's post funny.

The usual route from academia to the market place

[Jerry]

will be followed by this technology, no doubt.

With University and Government funding the researchers will solve the technical problems but not publish the pivital ones. Then they will resign/retire from the University and start their own corporation, using the give-away program Congress has established whereby information that was discovered/learned/developed using public tax monies, and should remain in the public domain, is given to corporations for next to nothing, and some "campaign contributions".

Then, the principal researcher, formerly an academic but now a businessman, will file patents on the key technologies that he discovered while being funded by tax monies. With ethics and morals like that it's no wonder that American corporations are pocketing BILLIONS in excess oil profits during times of scarcity, while defunding retirement accounts and abandoning health insurance programs.

The public, as usual, begins getting billed continually for technology that they payed for in the beginning. Because of this scam we're now paying 10 times or more what we should be paying for medical diagnostics or treatment. Even as I write the cable weather companies are working feverishly behind your backs, bribing politicians and spreading disinformation, in order to gain SOLE control of your taxpayer funded data streaming from weather satellites and NexRad radar data. When you go to a gas/convenience store and pay for gas at the pump using your bank debit card, the store takes 4 or 5 times the value of the gas you pumped and keeps it, interest free, for 3 or 4 days before returning the difference back to your account. For one midwest chain that has 952 outlets I computed that the owners are pocketing over 4 MILLION/year in unearned interest on our money. Meanwhile, those living on a tight budget and unaware that their checking account is being ripped off, pay the bank $35-50 per bounced check, written on money that SHOULD HAVE BEEN in their account.

Evil scams.