Comments on: Nanotechnology researchers working toward storing a petabyte on one DVD

By: Tom Jones

Tom Jones — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:51:43 +0000

by 2012 we’ll all be dead anyway, remember? That whole Mayan Calendar thing?

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:00:47 +0000

From the Kiplinger Report: “A new black gold rush is under way, this time in North Dakota. The potential payoff is huge — up to 100 billion barrels of oil. That’s twice the size of Alaska’s reserves and potentially enough to meet all U.S. oil needs for two decades.” From Nanotech: Nanotechnology leads to better catalysts… and Nanotech: Nanotechnology produces electricity from nuclear waste. Add to this the breakthroughs in Medicine and computing and What a wondrous time we are living in on this small planet. What a world on beauty we will leave the next generation. “God is not malicious He is Subtle. Let everyone enjoy the future and celebrate today.

Bless the tallent of the Nano and Micro researchers.

By: Nate

Nate — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:18:41 +0000

This for first replier, Mr. Miller: You should focus on the technology instead of people.
Man what should I say this is only a “$1 million project” and can produce such a miracle, but just image what a $2 million project will do for humanity? Besides, this article is written just one day before April first. I wonder what type of metallic can be used to produce such a predicted capacity. In ten years we will increase the capacity of the DVD by 20 times not 200,000 times as imagined in article by Prof. Gu. It is OK to dream sometimes, and walking on the clouds is not a bad idea. Afghanistan is bordering China.

By: Fran Johnson

Fran Johnson — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:45:55 +0000

I look forward to the day when all rotating media are history. Disk drives, no matter how dense, still remind me of 33-1/3 RPM vinyl records.

By: e

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:50:59 +0000

Well we are waiting.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:41:42 +0000

Oh no, it’s retrevial. That much data would take a very long time copy. Even if they could make such a disc, it would be of no use unless it’s reliable. How about cost?

By: Orion

Orion — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:05:16 +0000

What this meens is that optical discs will whrink from 5 1/4″ platters to 3 1/2″ or even 2″ platters. Whatever’s the smallest size that’s convenient to handle. Notebook PCs will be even smaller and slimmer, workstations will have massive backup capacity, and entertainment centers will have one storage drive that never needs to be erased or written over during its expected lifespan. Cool.

By: Crafty Hunter

Crafty Hunter — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:06:36 +0000

Well, another problem is that actually transferring even 40,000 DVDs onto a single medium would take a year, working full time with no off days or vacations and assuming a reasonable eight minutes each. I wouldn’t mind having a burner and a decent supply of such media anyway.

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By: aloysiusmiller

aloysiusmiller — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:48:26 +0000

Well the goverment will truly become big brother, Where you you on Sept 3, 2019? They will know and they’ll track the route you took coming and leaving. What would Hillary do with something like this?