Ah so that's what those traslucid bricks were in star trek!
Would you eventually be able to get data printed and have the plates sent to you, so you can store them yourself in a safe place?
This would be a great option for preserving the source media for films and videos, for example. Not just the finished product, but every take etc.
I really don't care until I can buy one. In the meantime I have a few hdd's and an old LTO4 drive...
Article says the glass plates can only be written once, so don't toss out your hdd just yet
They could replace WORM storage, and since the person you responded to mentioned LTO, WORM may be possible with their data set since LTO is traditionally used for backups
In 10k years, there either won’t be anyone left to read them, or the technology at the time won’t be able to read them.
i find these things cool and all but any company worth having things archived already fucked it up so much that theres not much left TO archive
at least ti feels like it
I can already see the future where warlords fight over the pretty glass buried in vaults across the land so they can whittle it down into jewelry they use to decorate the skull chalices of their enemies in order to pour out libations to the magic forces from the sky that govern their lives...
Gonna need a full 10,000 year UAT period thanks
This is best for long term photo and and video storage. Even commercial ones. And for the internet archive as well.
10,000 years is kinda hard to prove without a time machine, but sounds useful for long term archival storage.
Unless you put it in the dishwasher to often.
I remember reading abiut this possibly 10 years ago or more. It's insane how long it's been in development
Archeologists will find these in 1000 years and think it's just nice glass.
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