Quote: at 1:25,000 reduction, all of the information ever recorded in books can be placed in a pamphlet at full resolution

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The head of a pin is a sixteenth … of the pin is then equal to the … [At this scale, one dot in a half-tone reproduction is 80 angstroms in diameter and contains 1,000 atoms.] … [p. 65] [Now] let's consider all the books in … 5 million volumes; there are also 5 million … there are some 24 million volumes of interest … have been discussing? How much space would it … there being just the 24 volumes of the … [This takes] an area of about 3 square yards … [or 35 pages of the Encyclopaedia] … All of the information which all of mankind … and not written in code, but a simple … resolution. [In 1986 [?] using electron-beam lithography, Tom Newman wrote … at 1/25,000 reduction in scale.]   Google-1   Google-2

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