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College student creates paper-based storage system (no, not that kind) {Engadget}

Nov 26th 2006 7:37AM You cannot recursivly compress data over and over again and expect much reduction after the first time...

Does it not make the most sense to compress your data independently from the storage medium?

So why not just use a super software compression algorithm and store the output in the most discrete and simple manner possible (i.e. a sequence of TRUEs and FALSEs)... then come up with a means to reduce the physical realization of that sequence using technologies that operate on a nano scale... like a laser (e.g. DVDs) or magnets (e.g. hard-drives/flash memory).

Surely at some point in the scaling down of paper as a data storage mechanism, the non-crystaline compisition of it would become a major problem...

I could accept that this technology has some relavance/benefit to already existing solutions... like barcodes, or maybe some fancy data attachment to a mortgage document, or blueprint or something... but as a replacement for long term mass data storage... no frecking way.

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