atomic memory

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atomic memory n. / ǝ-'tä-mik 'mem-rē

A storage technology that uses a single atom to encode a bit of data.  It's still (really) slow but researchers have built a 2-D device that works.  Extended into three dimensions it would shrink the Library of Congress to the size of a pollen grain.

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