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| Memory Diamond | ||
| Very dense memory storage. |
| The box had contained a gemstone the size of his thumb, sitting atop a ... block studded with optical ports - the reader/writer head. It was memory diamond, atoms arranged in a lattice of alternating carbon 12 and carbon 13 nuclei; the preferred data storage format for thee unborn god's chosen few. Dense and durable, twelve grams was enough to store a thousand neural maps and their associated genome data. This was Hoechst's soul repository, where the uploaded data from anyone she terminated in the course of service would be stored until they could be archived by the Propagators, against the day when the unborn god would be assembled and draw upon the frozen imprints. |
| Technovelgy from Iron Sunrise,
by Charles Stross. Published by Ace in 2004 Additional resources -
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