There is indeed plenty of room at the bottom 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. Feynman predicted that the entire "Encyclopædia Britannica" could be written on the head of a pin. Three decades later, a group of scientists at IBM ma...
There is indeed plenty of room at the bottom 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. Feynman predicted that the entire "Encyclopædia Britannica" could be written on the head of a pin. Three decades later, a group of scientists at IBM ma...
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