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
Archeologist in 1000 years: "this glass has some interesting etching, must have had some religious significance.
Turns out to be the lewd anthropomorphic creatures glass plate
fertility ritual
Furrility Rituals.*
Maretility Rituals
Just petabytes of porn
“Aliens”
“There is only the true religion of the Void, these heretic artifacts must be destroyed”
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”.
The Prime Ejaculator
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.
Ah so that’s what those traslucid bricks were in star trek!
Awesome. So Microsoft, does this mean I’ll finally get access to the other 3TB of OneDrive storage that I pay for on my family plan? Or do I still have to create random accounts that would simulate other family members in order to use it?
This plan it built under the assumption that more people will be using one drive. The value of scrapped data isn’t just quantity, but number of people.
Sure, if you don’t mind storing stuff and then never reading them again.
To be fair, I have a lot of stuff I am storing that I have no realistic reason to ever need or want to read again as it is.
Never read again? These can’t be modified, but they can be read. After all, it’d be pretty useless to store data on a medium than can never be read.
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.
I want to know how many times they had to test it before they found one that lasted so long
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Why would the average consumer need to store data for 10000 years?
Maybe stop eating bacon and ice cream for every meal and you’ll live longer
There can only be one.
Its read only, so it would be like an old CD-ROM, once you write the data can’t alter or overwrite it.
Gonna need a full 10,000 year UAT period thanks
Archeologists will find these in 1000 years and think it’s just nice glass.
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…
People 10,000 years from now will know how to read these files.
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I mean, we have people that are able to read Mayan writing…
That writing is for words and concept. This is for data. Its a bit more complicated to parse data especially when, according to MSFT, it needs AI to do it.
Your backups are only as good as your ability to access them. Its the same issue with keeping people out of nuclear waste sites.
I disagree with that notion, because while only 70 years, there’s still ways to read punch cards as well. Sure, if society completely collapses and education will not be “reinvented” in 5000 years, those things probably won’t be able to be read anymore. But the nuclear sign for example won’t be changed anytime soon.
For that matter, how much smartphone evolved in the last 10 years, in 50 or 100 years, all smartphones probably will have a Geiger Counter (or we have those implanted).
The oldest Mayan ruins are from 1000-800BC That’s what…~3000 years? Not bad… Will this glass be as resistant to the elements as carved rocks?
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?
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’m pretty happy about it.
I hope this will end up being available to regular consumers one day and not just as an expensive enterprise solution.
Maybe if we build it for ourselves. Looks beautifully simple. The encoding is probably a little trick but we can get there.
Just need a laser that can make marks in glass at different depth.
Doesn’t sound impossible, CD burners for home consumers would once have been thought of as an outlandish idea
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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.
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Imagine long flat jolly ranchers…
I can see it.
Is that from Star Trek?
Yup
I have pendrives that look almost like that.
