This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
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.
What are you going to read it with? Unless it’s photographically reduced text, like microfiche, it’s unlikely that the computer hardware and software will still exist.
Nobody uses a 6502 with commodore basic anymore either, I can still pop on an emulator in about 10 seconds to run a game from that era.
Have some information there to build a reader, we can read hieroglyphics and cuneiform and that's older, more primitive and only written in a few places by a few people.
This is pretty doable.
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 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
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
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.
Gonna need a full 10,000 year UAT period thanks
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
