Transfer a song to your phone. Seems pretty fast, right? Now imagine transferring the entire printed catalogue of the Library of Congress in a minute and a half. Intel says they’ve got the technology to make it happen (eventually).
Behold the smallest world map, created by the Photonics Research Group of Ghent University-IMEC. Its scale is one trillionth. That’s a 40,000-kilometer equator reduced to 40 micrometer, half the width of a human hair.
