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In article <505@gvax.cs.cornell.edu>
	jqj@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (J Q Johnson) writes:

>Going one step further out, why use matter to encode data at all?   If you 
>want bulk sequential storage, simply modulate an EM wave directed at a
>distant point (that destination might be a reflector of some kind if you
>know you will want to retrieve your data at the same location you generated
>it).  Result:  effectively infinite bulk storage at the cost of a finite
>and small number of electrons.  Granted it's not random access, but neither
>are lots of existing technologies.

I seem to remember that this idea has already been proposed; read
_His_Master's_Voice_, by Stanislaw Lem.  This contains probably the
most outrageous (and *universal*) method of data storage I've ever seen...

							Kay.

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