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minus-squarebalsoft@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 hours agoThere is absolutely tech that can store digital files for centuries or potentially millennia e.g. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/project-silicas-advances-in-glass-storage-technology/ It’s expensive to store and slow to read, so it can only be used as an archival format for the most important data, but it does exist nonetheless.
There is absolutely tech that can store digital files for centuries or potentially millennia e.g. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/project-silicas-advances-in-glass-storage-technology/
It’s expensive to store and slow to read, so it can only be used as an archival format for the most important data, but it does exist nonetheless.