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Stephen Downes

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Think briefly about the implications of rewritable storage device that holds the equivalent of 200 CD-ROMs on a chip the size of a postage stamp. The system reads and writes by making atom sized dents in a piece of plexiglass. Right now it is too slow to be useful but "it's in a state where all the big problems are solved."

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