FIFTY years ago this month, the physicist Richard Feynman wondered when we would be able to write the Encyclopaedia Britannica on a pinhead. Soon, probably, thanks to terabyte chips (see 鈥淭omorrow鈥檚 memory technologies today鈥�). Today, an encyclopaedia writ small won鈥檛 be high on most people鈥檚 wish list, but even mp3 addicts might struggle to fill a chip that has room for hundreds of thousands of songs. If history is anything to go by, it won鈥檛 be hard to find new uses for supermemories. Why not pocket your entire movie collection for starters?
What would you do with a terabyte memory chip?
Even MP3 addicts might struggle to fill a chip that has room for hundreds of thousands of songs