{"id":130,"date":"2002-06-11T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-11T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2002\/06\/11\/dang-i-dropped-the-library-of-congress-again\/"},"modified":"2002-06-11T12:37:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-11T12:37:00","slug":"dang-i-dropped-the-library-of-congress-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2002\/06\/11\/dang-i-dropped-the-library-of-congress-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Dang, I dropped the Library of Congress again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.excite.com\/article\/20020611\/D7K2NC281.html\" target=\"_blank\">Researchers at IBM<\/a> have developed technology which uses dents in thin plastic film to store information. It&#8217;s a bit like the punch cards of computing history, except the dents are 10 nanometers in width. (A nanometer is one-millionth of the width of a piece of paper-clip wire.)<\/p>\n<p>The researchers estimate that with this technology in practical use, a common multifunction digital wristwatch could contain 15 gigabytes of data&#8230; that&#8217;s about 23 CDs, or 2 or 3 DVD movie discs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve backed up the ship&#8217;s computer core in this small MDM memory chip!&#8221; Brion Fields, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/elfie.org\/~mikail\/movies.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Space Rogues<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at IBM have developed technology which uses dents in thin plastic film to store information. It&#8217;s a bit like the punch cards of computing history, except the dents are 10 nanometers in width. (A nanometer is one-millionth of the width of a piece of paper-clip wire.) The researchers estimate that with this technology in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,18],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-space-rogues","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xCb9-26","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}