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"I believe in limited government, and the 20th century has been the century of government. The data is uniform. The government has failed at every single task it has set out to do, with the exception of waging war."
- Bart Kosko
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| Molecule Matrix | ||
| Storing information in individual molecules and atoms. |
Maybe the ultimate information storage system?
| "It is theoretically possible to have a matrix in which each individual molecule has a meaning - as they do in the memory cells of your brain. If we had such subtlety, we could wrap your Encyclopedia Britannica into the head of a pin - it would be the head of that pin..." |
| Technovelgy from Between Planets,
by Robert Heinlein. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1951 Additional resources -
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I remember seeing an early memory core at the University of Michigan (it's also an early memory for me - this was about 1965). It looked like tiny washers strung in columns and rows; it formed a cube.
This takes that "matrix" idea to it's logical endpoint - a matrix of atoms or molecules.
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