There's Plenty of Energy at the Bottom
American Spectator, The › Vol. 42 Nbr. 3, April 2009
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The smallest dot in a half-tone photo in the encyclopedia, he noted, if reduced by a factor of 25,000, would still contain in its area 1,000 atoms. Since electron microscopes could already scan pictures this small, why not store information at this level? In doing this, we are simply borrowing terrestrial energy from nature- just as we borrow solar energy in the form of photovoltaics, hydroelectric dams, and fossil fuels.
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There's Plenty of Energy at the Bottom
ON DECEMRER 29, 1959, on the threshold of the 1960s, Richard Feynman, "the best mind since Einstein" and interpreter of quantum mechanics, gave a lecture at the California Institute of Technology that is generally regarded to be the opening bell of the Information Age. It was titled, "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom."
"There is a device on the market, they tell me, that can write the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin," Feynman began. "But that's nothing....It is a staggeringly small world below. In the year 2000, when they lookback at this age, they will wonder why it was not until the year 1960 that anybody began seriously to move in this direction."Feynman was talking about the storage of information...See the full content of this document
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