Irony at an atomic scale

[Patrick Barnes]

So Richard Feynman wrote about how one might store a complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica on the head of a pin.

http://www.pa.msu.edu/~yang/RFeynman_plentySpace.pdf

And now someone's quoted him;

using individual atoms!

http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nnano.2016.131.html

https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/18/with-one-atom-per-bit-this-1-kilobyte-hard-drive-is-only-100-nanometers-wide/

Very nifty.

-Patrick

(the tech has been around for a while, they've figured out a way to control a read-write head that can move over the surface and do this)