5D, Holograms, & DNA: Amazing Hard Drives of the Future
Today's data storage solutions have an expiration date. What's on the horizon to replace them? Hosted by: Michael Aranda ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.pat...
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Computers are getting smaller, faster, and more powerful all the time. That’s awesome for a lot of reasons, but it’s creating a problem: most of our computers store data pretty much the same way they have for decades, and that technology is starting to run into fundamental physical limits on just how small and fast it can be. Which is why a lot of researchers are working on newer tech to take its place. And someday, you might be saving that fanfiction you’re writing about Sherlock and Watson to a tiny glass disk that could last billions of years, or storing it as a hologram. You might even be able to hardcode it into DNA. You probably know that files on your computer are stored as lists of ones and zeros. But we haven’t really talked about how...
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Computers are getting smaller, faster, and more powerful all the time. That’s awesome for a lot of reasons, but it’s creating a problem: most of our computers store data pretty much the same way they have for decades, and that technology is starting to run into fundamental physical limits on just how small and fast it can be. Which is why a lot of researchers are working on newer tech to take its place. And someday, you might be saving that fanfiction you’re writing about Sherlock and Watson to a tiny glass disk that could last billions of years, or storing it as a hologram. You might even be able to hardcode it into DNA. You probably know that files on your computer are stored as lists of ones and zeros. But we haven’t really talked about how...
