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

    • flop_leash_973@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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.

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      1 year ago

      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.