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Along a simliar vein I've heard it proposed you could store information in a diamond using different isotopes of carbon as binary 1 and 0's. That would last a
by tocomment 13y ago
Along a simliar vein I've heard it proposed you could store information in a diamond using different isotopes of carbon as binary 1 and 0's. That would last a tremendously long time and I believe have a huge storage capacity.
- pronoiac 13y agoIt's called "memory diamond." I'm aware of it thanks to Charlie Stross[1], who credits the idea to Eric Drexler. [1] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/05/shaping_the_future.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/05/shaping_...
- tocomment 13y agoInteresting read, thanks. I wonder why he suggests two atoms per bit? Seems wasteful?