Somehow I would imagine the researchers have to start taking into account quantum mechanics working with single atoms.
Imagine what the NSA/CIA/FBI could do with it....................maybe already are................
I remember being about 6 years old, walking down the street in 1960 and it suddenly hit me that every single thing I do and experience is NOT being recorded, and that I must depend on my memory to save it.
I believe we are entering an era where every single thing a person experienced will be recorded as a matter of course, for later playback as needed.
Meh, until they can encode data at the electron level.
We were taught in Navy training in 1970 that there were no microscopes that could see electrons. That we knew of their existence only because we could hear them bumping into each other. So if they can put that much data on one atom microscope technology must have really improved. Otherwise, why put it on there if you can’t see it to read it.
IBM does these great things but still keeps Lotus Notes around.
I think its a bit misleading. Firstly, it does not explain the quality loss. The solid state data deals with quality loss by creating duplicate data cells. So if some go bad or are simply wrong their are others that are right. An atom moves. So there must be several duplicate atoms that can handle the loss of integrity. Second, 100,000 to one is not that far. We have reduced things a great deal in the past 30 years. Remember the size of a 10 megabyte hard drive. Now you can have 4 terabytes in half the size for half the money. That’s a 8,000,000 difference.
Data storage size is just one of the issues that slows down computing. Moving it, searching it, updating it, and manipulating it are more limiting to us.
Man that’s a lot of porn.
IBM likes to play with lab experiments.
I remember when they spelled out “IBM” by moving gold atoms.
Cute and interesting but totally useless from a mass production viewpoint.
Particularly in memory circuits, it needs to work perfect, 100% of the time for decades.
At Intel, we had a circuit which would work fine for about 30 seconds...you would walk away and it would die.
We told the design team to try again and not waste more of our time.
Hard to believe that even this will look like a moderate advancement some day in the future.
“There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom” was a lecture given by physicist Richard Feynman at an American Physical Society meeting at Caltech on December 29, 1959. Feynman considered the possibility of direct manipulation of individual atoms as a more powerful form of synthetic chemistry than those used at the time. The talk went unnoticed and did not inspire the conceptual beginnings of the field. In the 1990s it was rediscovered and publicized as a seminal event in the field, probably to boost the history of nanotechnology with Feynman’s reputation.