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Data Storage in Science Fiction
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Name |
Author (Publication Date) |
| Stanislaw Lem (1961) | |
| Bruce Sterling (1988) | |
| Brian Herbert (2001) | |
| Larry Niven (1998) | |
| Charles Stross (2004) | |
| Robert Heinlein (1951) | |
| Robert Heinlein (1951) | |
| E.E. 'Doc' Smith (1934) | |
| Dan Simmons (1989) | |
| Murray Leinster (1946) | |
| Jack Vance (1954) | |
| Robert Heinlein (1973) |
Related Science Fiction in the News
Crystals In Gel For Computer Memory Ah, nothing like curling up at night with a good crystal. A data storage crystal containing tens of thousands of volumes, that is. (re: Stanislaw Lem, 10/20/2009 ) |
2 Terabyte Memory Sticks Coming This is just an announcement of the finalization of the spec - you can't quite buy one yet. (re: Dan Simmons, 8/7/2009 ) |
Stanford Writes Nano Letters 35 Bits Per Electron Can you read the fine print? Imagine a dot matrix printer using drops just 0.3 nanometers in size. (re: Ridley Scott, 2/17/2009 ) |
Planetary Hard Drive Storing information in natural deposits and fields. (re: Roger Zelazny, 1/29/2009 ) |
Graphene Memory Arrays Are Stackable, Awesome Amazing advance could bring storage devices of sfnal capacity even closer. (re: Dan Simmons, 11/22/2008 ) |
Eye-Fi Equals SD Memory Card Plus Wi-Fi Amazing device for its size - it's a memory card... no, it's a network connectivity device... actually, both. (re: David Brin, 11/14/2007 ) |
Terabyte Thumb Drives Using Programmable Metallization Cell (PMC) Tech This advance comes just as manufacturers are reaching the limits of flash memory technology. Whew! (re: Dan Simmons, 10/28/2007 ) |
E-Disk Altima 416GB Flash Drive World's Highest Capacity Seems like you could fit a lot of movies into this - why can't I get this in an iPod? (re: Dan Simmons, 9/17/2007 ) |
IBM Stores Information On A Single Molecule Now that's a small computer system. (re: Robert Heinlein, 9/10/2007 ) |
Information Storage In Bacteria DNA Update If you wanted to make sure that your data survived for thousands of years, where would you put it? (re: Various, 6/27/2007 ) |
Microwire Data Storage Microwires 3 to 5 times thinner than a human hair are being studied as a possible data storage alternative to CD-ROMs. Microwire technology originated in the old Soviet Union; they are now being studied elsewhere. (re: Robert Heinlein, 3/8/2005 ) |
Nanowire Memory Cells: Compact Data Storage Is it possible to achieve data storage rates of 40 Gigabits per square centimeter? Scientists at USC and the NASA Ames Research Center think so - with nanowire. (re: Frank Herbert, 4/27/2004 ) |
Lexar 8Gb Compact Flash Memory Doubles The Record Lexar's new 8Gb Professional Series CompactFlash card doubles the old record of 4Gb (gigabytes) for the largest compact flash memory size. (re: Dan Simmons, 4/19/2004 ) |
Toshiba 0.85 Inch Diameter Hard Drive Guiness World Records announced on March 16th that the Toshiba Drive is the smallest in the world. The 0.85-inch HDDs will start mass production at the end of the year. (re: Larry Niven, 12/18/2003 ) |
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