http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/10/22/outgoing-sandisk-ceo-on-the-future-of-flash/

Sandisk CEO on the future of flash memory..., note the excerpt below...,emphasis, plankton's:

"But flash memory has faced a more pressing fear, that the technology will no longer work reliably at ultra-small dimensions–or, as Harari puts it, there won’t be enough electrons for tiny elements called cells to register the presence or absence of a bit of data."