On 6/2/16, Keith F. Lynch <kfl@keithlynch.net> wrote:
Credit where it's due. As far as I know, the idea of using C12 and C13 in diamond as bits to store information is due to Charles Stross. The earliest mention I've been able to find is in a July 2013 Usenet post from him. He later used the idea in his Hugo-award winning novella "Palimpsest," in which high-definition video recordings of literally all of history and prehistory in vast numbers of alternate timelines is recorded in a vast library which uses nearly all of Earth's carbon. ...
Rather more than "all of Earth's carbon" I imagine, if literally "literally", since the recording process itself would be recorded; unless of course the data-structure incorporated self-reference, which might pose unconventional access challenges! WFL