This makes for a series of relatively intimate places rather
than one big unbroken stretch of
sand lined with high rise hotels and
packed with people.
Just a month after a science fiction writer speculated on storage devices the size of a grain of
sand comes news from the magazine Science of developments in magnetic anisotropy that could eventually be used to store information in individual atoms, paving the way to
pack as much as 150 trillion bits of data per square inch, 1,000 times more
than current data storage densities.