X-Message-Number: 21250 From: Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 08:12:35 EST Subject: New nanodrives --part1_14f.1c2b0bc3.2b8b7443_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Seen in Scientific American an article about a new memory system using nanosized cantilevers to write and erase bits in a plastic coat. The article says that we can now build 1024 x 1024 arrays of such cantilevers, similar to the ones used in atomic force microscopes. It seems such systems will be on the market 3 years from now. So, what about reading objects at atomic resolution with this system? Could fossils be "read" so that we could find the remains of broken DNA? Could we build back the genetic make-up of plants turned into coal? The door to Jurassic Park? Yvan Bozzonetti. --part1_14f.1c2b0bc3.2b8b7443_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=21250