Data storage is getting smaller and smaller — what’s the limit?

SciTech Wahtfinger News ^ | December 18, 2021

[ProfessorGoldiloxx]

I’m from Tennessee, the Volunteer state, and I volunteer we use migrants as hard drives. Kidding, I’m not going to chase after them every time I need a file.

[Equine1952]

I’m guessing here. Biden’s brain?

[Fungi]

Did you watch your own post? He does not come to that conclusion.

[algore]

The real question is how much of your personal data do you want the govt to be able to store

[Reeses]

The universe uses massless photon storage, which is amazingly good. Family photos of stars are reliably stored for billions of years.

[Salamander]

No, the real question is how will I find that single atom, when I already have a rip of a time locating all my thumb drives??

;D

[Salamander]

Will the atom be USB 2/3 or USB C?

I need to think about adaptors.

[Jonty30]

If it gets small enough, I’m uncertain what the limit is.

I’ll have to ask Heisenberg.

[jimfree]

Maybe Schrödinger’s cat can tell us.

[Prov1322]

Will the atom be USB 2/3 or USB C?

I need to think about adaptors.

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Adaptors!?

How am I supposed to get my SSDD floppies to work?!

[Salamander]

Very intense origami?

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Everyone should read “MS Fnd in a Lbry”, a 1961 short story by Hal Draper. In the story, all of human civilization’s knowledge can be stored in a single drawer, although the indexing takes up entire solar systems. The end is predictable.

Funny story. It’s available on pdf from several sites.

[Prov1322]

Very intense origami?

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I’m sure I can get it done in 8 folds...

[Dr. Sivana]

I need to think about adaptors.

[Pollard]

Data storage is getting smaller and smaller — what’s the limit?

Small enough to be injected?

[Boomer]

Will it speed up my portable computer?

[Salamander]

Heh.

I was thinking of that.

;D

[Salamander]

I will NEVER go metric!

[bgill]

I can’t find half my data already. I’m certain to never find it hiding in an atom.