This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Ah so that's what those traslucid bricks were in star trek!
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...
I really don't care until I can buy one. In the meantime I have a few hdd's and an old LTO4 drive...
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
Gonna need a full 10,000 year UAT period thanks
People 10,000 years from now will know how to read these files.
You should look into message sent off world from Arecibo space telescope. It's super interesting how scientists made the messages universally readable with assumption whoever gets it has never spoken a word of any of our languages.
10,000 years is kinda hard to prove without a time machine, but sounds useful for long term archival storage.
This is best for long term photo and and video storage. Even commercial ones. And for the internet archive as well.
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
