And, years ago, there was talk of bio-chips storing data in protein strings and accessed via solitons. And holographic storage and ... whew!

>And talking about future growth, I used to think, some years ago, that storage capacity would continue increasing, until each individual atom stores a bit - or a few bits.
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>However, if I understand recent investigations in Quantum Computing correctly, a quantum computer with a few thousand storage elements ("qubits") could store more bits of information than there are atoms in the known universe.
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>Hilmar.