Atomic memory device could store all books ever written

[Peter1469]

Atomic memory device could store all books ever written

That is a lot of stuff in a small place.....

A new "atomic memory" device that encodes data atom by atom can store hundreds of times more data than current hard disks can, a new study finds.

"You would need just the area of a postage stamp to write out all books ever written," said study senior author Sander Otte, a physicist at the Delft University of Technology's Kavli Institute of Nanoscience in the Netherlands.


In fact, the researchers estimated that if they created a cube 100 microns wide — about the same diameter as the average human hair — made of sheets of atomic memory separated from one another by 5 nanometers, or billionths of a meter, the cube could easily store the contents of the entire U.S. Library of Congress. [10 Technologies That Will Transform Your Life]


"Of course, these estimations are all a little silly, but in my opinion, they help to get an idea of how incredibly small this memory device really is," Otte told Live Science.

[MisterVeritis]

Atomic memory device could store all books ever written

That is a lot of stuff in a small place.....

There is always the difficulty of getting the information back out of those tiny places.