Single Molecule Memory

techtrend linked us up to a paper from Mark Reed and James Tour on single molecule memory which, if it comes about will pretty much make space irrelevant. They say the technology is 3-5 years off.

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skeptical

[Forward The Light Br]

this would be cool, except:

we still dont have a decent way to transfer information through 1 molecule sized pathways...
(keep in mind, they have flipped the gate, and watched with a microscope... they did not do anything useful with it)

the gate/transistor can be that small, but if the path to get there is not, who cares

(electricity can't work well at that size, if the pathways are that small and at all decently near each other you will get massive electron tunneling, where they hop over to the next pathway ) (this is bad ;-)

optical pathways ahve not been gotten to work yet AFAIK, and even they would have problems at that level

on a more holistic level, fusion was supposed to be done 20 years ago, those incredibly large harddrives that are the size of my pinky were supposed to be done by now....


this is cool and all, but it is research that will not bear fruit for a LOOONG time

-RS
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars --Oscar Wilde