On: IBM has found a way to store data on a single atom

[mrfusion]

I like the idea of storing information by using two stable isotopes of carbon into a diamond. It would last a long time and be extremely compact.

Has anyone looked into that?

[marcosdumay → mrfusion]

Push something other than carbon there and it will be much easier to read¹, without sacrificing any reasonable² amount of shelf life.

1 - If you do it with a surface, there's commercial tech available for reading it. But you'll still have to develop the entire writing stack.

2 - For a "my info is secure for N times longer than the Universe will take to get into heat death" you'll get a smaller N.

[adrianN → mrfusion]

How would you read that information?

[mrfusion → adrianN]

I guess that's what they have to work out.

You could do graphene instead and then just read it out row by row?