Project Silica’s coaster-size glass plates can store unaltered data for thousands of years, creating sustainable storage for the world
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
They were, but odds are a future generation of glass storage will be too. CDs started off as a hard WORM ROM, but eventually a rewriting process was developed. I just checked, CDs are from 1982, and CD-RW were introduced in 1997, so I would likely expect about the same turnaround of ~15 years from when these are released to the public.
Given the 20 years of development between the first VTR and VHS, the 100% development to storage lifetime of that technology seems pretty large in comparison.
Also, how silly would it be if we put things into glass for 10,000 years and then 5 years later there’s a format war like VHS vs Beta and we need to redo everything?
Intelligent life in the future will find 10,000 year old records from present day humanity and be so frustrated by the multiple competing formats over the first 100 of those years that they won’t even bother trying to read it.
Of all the things to take time with to get right, extremely long term storage seems like one of the more prudent.
If you want something to last 1000 years you design it to last 10k. In 1000 years, the descendants of the ultra rich will come out of their bunkers with the technology to read these chips.
I really hate this like ‘in my imaginary world, where everything is perfect and not as much as an atom of dirt comes into contact with the product, and therefore nobody uses the product while it is sealed in a vacuum chamber, then hypothetically it will still be good in a billion years. MTBF = infinity. ship it.’
Can they work on the 30 year old code base supporting OneDrive first? How the fuck are we supposed to willingly put our personal data up for ransom through that service?
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Didn’t intel make same thing few years ago?
Ah, shit… I guess my great, great, great, 100x great Martian grandkids will have to suffer leaked dickpics from ancient times.
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So… all the from Star Gate glass stuff might be quite accurate?
Don’t forget Isolinear Chips.
Aren’t isolinear chips rewritable though
They were, but odds are a future generation of glass storage will be too. CDs started off as a hard WORM ROM, but eventually a rewriting process was developed. I just checked, CDs are from 1982, and CD-RW were introduced in 1997, so I would likely expect about the same turnaround of ~15 years from when these are released to the public.
I’ll personally make sure that the historians of the distant future are aware of 21st century micropenis.
“This was man before genetically engineered super penises. Wars were fought people were killed. We cannot go backwards, we must move forward.”
Increases the size of super penises 10%
Didn’t someone make a holographic cube some ten or so years ago with the same promises.
I never get excited by this stuff. If I see it in Best Buy, then I’ll believe it.
Many people have made such devices I think. There’s probably a guy somewhere with a shelf full of them.
Yeah, also writing 10 GB of data to rolls of sticky tape in the late 90s. It can be done, but it’s not practical.
Finally. I can store my porn in my glasses.
You can make a jar out of this glass, the good ending.
Some of the same technology was actually also used to create windows.
You can have my upvote, but I’m not happy about it
I remember reading abiut this possibly 10 years ago or more. It’s insane how long it’s been in development
0.1% of the intended storage duration?
Given the 20 years of development between the first VTR and VHS, the 100% development to storage lifetime of that technology seems pretty large in comparison.
Also, how silly would it be if we put things into glass for 10,000 years and then 5 years later there’s a format war like VHS vs Beta and we need to redo everything?
Intelligent life in the future will find 10,000 year old records from present day humanity and be so frustrated by the multiple competing formats over the first 100 of those years that they won’t even bother trying to read it.
Of all the things to take time with to get right, extremely long term storage seems like one of the more prudent.
Is this what Hal 9000’s memories were stored on?
That’s a lot of start menu ads and telemetry code!
The goddamn telemetry code!!! Is ancient!! That’s why it’s so huge and slow
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.
If you want something to last 1000 years you design it to last 10k. In 1000 years, the descendants of the ultra rich will come out of their bunkers with the technology to read these chips.
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Some version of the latter is far more likely.
MS: it can last for 10000 years!
Me: have you tested that
MS: well no b-
Me: your company is not even 50 years old
MS: but we ran the simulations
Me: …
I really hate this like ‘in my imaginary world, where everything is perfect and not as much as an atom of dirt comes into contact with the product, and therefore nobody uses the product while it is sealed in a vacuum chamber, then hypothetically it will still be good in a billion years. MTBF = infinity. ship it.’
Just some real world experience:
Many, but not all books made of paper have survived the last world war. I’m not so sure about all the glass plates.
Bruh, it’s quartz glass. Tf you think is going to happen to it?
I dunno, I’m not 10,000 years old. I’llet you know.
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They’re called isolinear chips.
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I can see it, but I have no idea how to post images in comments.
I have pendrives that look almost like that.
Is that from Star Trek?
Can they work on the 30 year old code base supporting OneDrive first? How the fuck are we supposed to willingly put our personal data up for ransom through that service?