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LoquaciousAntipodean t1_j46h5qj wrote

Not an engineer by any measure, so I don't really know what I'm talking about... But, as far as I can tell, figuring out how to use the newly discovered information-holding potential within these kind of ultra, ultra tiny, yet extraordinarily robust, non-volatile and relatively easy to manipulate electromagnetic 'static vortices'...

/ takes deep breath / could dramatically increase the density, reliability and overall utility of electromagnetic data storage, but it is probably many years away before any kind of remotely practical hardware could be built to utilise it.

It's similar, I think, to the sci-fi idea of embedding/extracting data through lasers, working three-dimensionally within the molecular matrix of high-purity crystals. It's a neat idea with a lot of hypothetical potential, but at this stage it's a bit of a crap-shoot how 'feasible' it could be.

Hopefully these are the sorts of questions that AI will rapidly become better at answering!

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