[extropy-chat] Plastic promises dense data store

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>From <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3245822.stm">BBC</a>: A common plastic used to keep monitor screens clear of fluff could soon be used as a high-density computer memory. In the journal Nature, the US researchers behind the discovery say it could let them pack a gigabyte of data into a sugar cube-sized device. The material is also very cheap to manufacture and data can be written down and read back from it quickly. The researchers predict that it could take only a few years to turn their discovery into working devices, and that very dense memory blocks could be created by stacking the thin layers of the material on top of each other. Working devices could be up to 10 times more dense than current hard disks.