Resumen de Smallest storage uses atoms for bits
It's a memory so small they'll forget where they left it. A new data storage system uses single atoms as computer bits, and could hold the contents of the US Library of Congress in a cube just 100 micrometers across--little more than a speck of dust. Researchers have been trying for years to develop data storage using single atoms as bits--the 1s and Os that form the basic units of information in a computer. Eight bits make up one byte, which can represent a single letter or number. Today's hard disc drives use billions of atoms to represent a few bytes, and the average hard disc holds a trillion bytes
