Paper: The next-gen storage medium (?)

I found this article pretty interesting. A student was able to put 256GB of data on a single 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper, encoding data as a series of shapes and colors. He’s developed a proprietary scanner that will read this data into a computer and is supposedly small enough to fit inside a laptop. Next best thing or next horrible flop. You be the judge.

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