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"Fuzzy logic tries to get machines to think like people do, with inexact fuzzy terms."
- Bart Kosko

Molecule Matrix  
  Storing information in individual molecules and atoms.  

Maybe the ultimate information storage system?

"It is theoretically possible to have a matrix in which each individual molecule has a meaning - as they do in the memory cells of your brain. If we had such subtlety, we could wrap your Encyclopedia Britannica into the head of a pin - it would be the head of that pin..."
From Between Planets, by Robert Heinlein.
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1951
Additional resources -

I remember seeing an early memory core at the University of Michigan (it's also an early memory for me - this was about 1965). It looked like tiny washers strung in columns and rows; it formed a cube.

This takes that "matrix" idea to it's logical endpoint - a matrix of atoms or molecules.

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  - Store One Bit On One Atom

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