Microsoft develops ultra durable glass plates that can store several TBs of data for 10000 years

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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

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Of all the stuff I've seen in sci fi movies and tv shows, I really didn't think the computer chips on glowing transparent plates was gonna become reality. What a crazy world this is.

Here, put this weird glowing crystal into the Heart of Gold's navicom, it contains the location of the long lost planet of Magrathea.

Whoops, sorry, that was my Lincoln Park discography

Four score and seven years ago, in the end it doesn’t even matter

Ahhh Lincoln Park.

The cover band mixing President Abraham Lincolns greatest escapades with the nuwave metal of 2000's Linkin Park. Featuring the Bed Intruder dude.

I tried so hard, and got so far. But in the end, I still got assassinated.

I was gonna go for, "In the head, I was still assassinated."

Star Trek predicts another future technology; the isolinear chip.

Add: And the chips used on the original series were opaque, but roughly the same size.

I bet people in the 80's said stuff like this when music started coming out on digital rainbow mirrors (CDs).

Nope! The futuristic aspect was that they didn’t jam.

“No more cassette players eating my $8 album!? I LOVE LIVING IN THE FUTURE!”

That was more the reaction to Sony mini-discs. Video players using large laser discs had been around for a while.

Mini-discs still feel futuristic for some reason.

I agree, but can't figure out why. Maybe because it wasn't wildly adopted?

Every time I watch Johnny Mnemonic and he snaps in that laser disc I think "so cool"... :)

Keanu Reeves also stored his malware on MDs in The Matrix. Most cyberpunk guy alive (also in Cyberpunk 2077).

I hope it'll be like those communicators in the expanse, those things look fun.

I want a glass computer that is on a manipulator strapped to my back that way it can float free and I can use both hands, then push a button to have it collapse back along the backside of my ribs.