Microsoft develops ultra durable glass plates that can store several TBs of data for 10000 years::Project Silica’s coaster-size glass plates can store unaltered data for thousands of years, creating sustainable storage for the world
Of all the stuff I’ve seen in sci fi movies and tv shows, I really didn’t think the computer chips on glowing transparent plates was gonna become reality. What a crazy world this is.
Here, put this weird glowing crystal into the Heart of Gold’s navicom, it contains the location of the long lost planet of Magrathea.
Ahhh Lincoln Park.
The cover band mixing President Abraham Lincolns greatest escapades with the nuwave metal of 2000’s Linkin Park. Featuring the Bed Intruder dude.
Star Trek predicts another future technology; the isolinear chip.
Add: And the chips used on the original series were opaque, but roughly the same size.
I bet people in the 80’s said stuff like this when music started coming out on digital rainbow mirrors (CDs).
That was more the reaction to Sony mini-discs. Video players using large laser discs had been around for a while.
It’s an active area of research. I guess you’d just say that they haven’t figured it out yet.
I hope it’ll be like those communicators in the expanse, those things look fun.
“Project Silica’s goal is to write data in a piece of glass and store it on a shelf until it is needed. Once written, the data inside the glass is impossible to change.”
Very important note here.
So it’s great for archival storage. This is exactly the type of thing I’m interested in if it was cheap enough.
My media collection. I really only need like 50 years tops. At which point I’ll be dead or to senile to enjoy it. Unless I can back up my own consciousness onto it. Then… That.
True, but being very easy to make would hopefully keep costs down, allowing you to have multiple plates.
Also, this may not be for home use but companies that need to store data for years.
My great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandson is really gonna love this 36K remaster of Shrek. I know I would
“Bob, why the hell did you format this as ‘Jim sux dicks’?! You know that’s permanent, right?”
10K years later
Alien captain: Anything to report?
Alien: We need to find a being named “Jim”, sir…
Why so negative? It could just as well be humans that find such a thing 10K years later
Backup wikipedia once a year to a crystal and then civilizations thousands of years from now can comb through it as they wish.
This… well roughly. People here say muh file formats etc. But you’re really going for the maximum lifetime, if its uncompressed text, it wouldn’t be too hard to reverse engineer if future people figure out that there’s data on there at all. The harder part may be extracting the data at all. We could also include instructions on how certain file formats can be read.
It’s is is still a great long term archive storage, and more likely the data would be transfered to a better storage device within a few 100 years (if we’re talking about archiving the present for future archologists that is)
Archeologist in 1000 years: "this glass has some interesting etching, must have had some religious significance.
Archaeologist in 1005 years: "We have translated the folder names on this glass storage device! The writings within refer to a important man named “Brazzers”, and there is another folder full of his correspondence to his “step sister” and someone named “Milf”.
Some of the same technology was actually also used to create windows.
Logs into the SilicaArk long term storage system for the first time.
“Welcome Andy, would you like to use the optimistic theme or the pessimistic theme?”
Chooses optimistic. Types in command to show storage capacity.
“The glass is half full.”
