Soon: Superman Memory Crystals
The technical details in this article about five-dimensional data storage in a quartz crystal are fascinating. What it means in practice is probably the most reliable means of storage conceivable. I expect it will always be a little pricier than other options to write your backups onto quartz, but there are plenty of businesses that would value that kind of certainty.
Now how do we stop the formats from evolving? It’s all very well to have a backup that will last for the foreseeable future but how do you ensure that you have a reader that won’t degrade over eternity? Of course, with this technology that’s another problem, like social security and global warming, we can just let our kids worry about.
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