Ride the Lightning
Cybersecurity and Future of Law Practice Blog
by Sharon D. Nelson Esq., President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc.
ONE TERRABYTE OF DATA ON A FINGERNAIL-SIZED CHIP
October 23, 2009
Those of us involved in electronic evidence certainly took note of a story earlier this week. Computerworld reported that engineers from North Carolina State University have created a material that could hold a terrabytes of data on a fingernail-sized chip. That would be 50 times the capacity of today's best silcon-based technologies.
In a word, wow. I am so NOT a scientist – I barely made it through "Physics for Humanists" in college. My sympathetic professor undoubtedly passed me for sheer doggedness. I remember him commenting that he "never saw someone work so hard to learn so little."
But even I was fascinated by the account of "selective doping" (this had an unscientific meaning in my college days) and working at the nanoscale level. Take a read and marvel at the implications for computer forensics and EDD . . .
Hat tip to Jesse Lindmar.
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