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From: mash@mips.com (John Mashey)
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Subject: Re: 64-bits, How many years?
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Date: 20 Mar 91 19:16:45 GMT
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In article <1991Mar20.162907.22485@sj.nec.com> koll@dragon.nec.com (Michael Goldman) writes:
>
> All of which is true (as far as current theory goes), but the energy levels
> of valence electrons are quantized so that your precision would only have
....  more along discussion of making computers REALLY small and fast...

Of course, there better be some seriosu redundancy in all of this.

I'm reminded of a science fiction story (can somebody recall the author
and title?)  about successive waves of shrinkage as all of the information
in galactic society gets squeezed into smaller and samller physical space
(using techniques of the ilk mentioned in this thread), and this is
wonderful, but then, somewhere, somebody loses the tiny object,
or perhaps the index to it, and society collapses because no one can
get the information back :-) 
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