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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 08:12:35 EST
Subject: New nanodrives

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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.

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