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.
“There is only the true religion of the Void, these heretic artifacts must be destroyed”
“Aliens”
Some of the same technology was actually also used to create windows.
You can have my upvote, but I’m not happy about it
They’re called isolinear chips.
Is that from Star Trek?
I have pendrives that look almost like that.
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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.
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?
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.
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.
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
Was it minority report or the matrix that showed humans storing data on glass?
Either way, this is pretty cool.
Star Trek also has this.
And Star Craft and Stargate. Must be something a lot of sci-fi stuff has.
I think the blade runner sequel had something like this too.
I think you’re thinking of Star Wars. Like episode 2 or something.
I don’t remember this anywhere in the matrix
In 2001, HAL is disconnected through glass like components.
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.
Is this what Hal 9000’s memories were stored on?
Finally. I can store my porn in my glasses.
You can make a jar out of this glass, the good ending.
- You’ll have your porn literally in you
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?
Me taking out a piece of hermetically sealed perfectly persevered data storage glass 10000 years in the future:
Scratches it immediately
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Also me, storing several TB’s of porn on ultra durable glass plates:
The future will thank me
Ah, shit… I guess my great, great, great, 100x great Martian grandkids will have to suffer leaked dickpics from ancient times.
Several TB you say. So one install is MS OS.
What’ll happen after 10,001 years?
Cleaning crew finally finds a way to make the glass clean.
