The data storage industry has always been two-dimensional, racing to jam more bits onto the surfaces of magnetic tape, CDs or DVDs.

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The storage model is based on multi-dimensional arrays.

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"Much of today's programming targets men in a one-dimensional way ... tattoos or pawn shops or storage lockers or axes or hillbillies, " Esquire Channel's general manager Adam Stotsky said.

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The engineers next demonstrated the possibilities of their techniques by creating the essential components of digital integrated systems: arithmetic circuits and sequential storage, as well as the first monolithic three-dimensional integrated circuits with extreme levels of integration.

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