WHAT if "we can arrange the atoms the way we want; the very atoms, all the way down"? So asked the physicist Richard Feynman in an influential 1959 lecture called "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom." This manipulation would mean that information, like text, could be written using atoms themselves. In his speech, Feynman predicted that the entire Encyclopædia Britannica could be written on the head of a pin. Just over three decades later, a group of scientists at IBM managed exactly that. The...
Scientists pave the way for large-scale storage at the atomic level
The Economist - 18 Jul 2016 23:08
WHAT if "we can arrange the atoms the way we want; the very atoms, all the way down"? So asked the physicist Richard Feynman in an influential 1959 lecture called "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom." This manipulation would mean that information, like text, could be written using atoms themselves. In his speech, Feynman predicted that the entire Encyclopædia Britannica could be written on the head of a pin. Just over three decades later, a group of scientists at IBM managed exactly that. The...
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