https://newatlas.com/electronics/2-inch-diamond-wafers-quantum-memory-billion-blu-rays/
Seems like overkill for any multimedia application.
So, what could this be used for? There are at least a few applications that could even outstrip this level of data capacity:
1. Astronomy applications. There are a trillion galaxies out there, each with hundreds of billions of stars, and each of those with hundreds of planets. That's tens of thousands of billions of trillions. If we ever build a telescope powerful enough to see it all, we'll need even more data storage capacity than this technology offers.
2. Microbiology applications. One day we might start tracking the aging process in each individual cell in the human body. The human body contains 100 trillion cells. Uniquely identifying each cell would require a lengthy description of each, including ID number, location (x,y,z coordinates), type, ancestry for daughter cells, deviation of each cell from the statistical norm, etc. This could easily add up to 250 kilobytes per cell, or 25 Exabytes.
3. Game of life simulations. How complex a simulated universe do we have to create before some part of it becomes sentient? Our visible universe has an estimated 10^80 protons, and that's just for starters.
I predict there will be no shortage of applications for this technology.
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