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Microsoft develops ultra durable glass plates that can store several TBs of data for 10000 years
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this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2023
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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