That way, if the power went away, the battery would have enough charge to write the data from the memory to some other more permanent location.

FORBES: Nanotech Meets Computer Memory

One evening it dissolves and Sid decides to re-write it from memory in effect, becoming Gould, just as Gould ultimately metamorphoses into a fish, taking Sid with him into his new element.

ECONOMIST: New fiction from Australia

They have to write down what they learned and what they heard today, so they actually have to kind of recite from memory what they heard and then how are they going to apply the message that was in the message to their life.

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