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
Archeologist in 1000 years: "this glass has some interesting etching, must have had some religious significance.
Turns out to be the lewd anthropomorphic creatures glass plate
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Furrility Rituals.*
Maretility Rituals
Just petabytes of porn
“There is only the true religion of the Void, these heretic artifacts must be destroyed”
“Aliens”
Some of the same technology was actually also used to create windows.
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Logs into the SilicaArk long term storage system for the first time.
“Welcome Andy, would you like to use the optimistic theme or the pessimistic theme?”
Chooses optimistic. Types in command to show storage capacity.
“The glass is half full.”
Woooow
They’re called isolinear chips.
Is that from Star Trek?
Yup
I have pendrives that look almost like that.
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Awesome. So Microsoft, does this mean I’ll finally get access to the other 3TB of OneDrive storage that I pay for on my family plan? Or do I still have to create random accounts that would simulate other family members in order to use it?
Sure, if you don’t mind storing stuff and then never reading them again.
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.
This plan it built under the assumption that more people will be using one drive. The value of scrapped data isn’t just quantity, but number of people.
Didn’t someone make a holographic cube some ten or so years ago with the same promises.
I never get excited by this stuff. If I see it in Best Buy, then I’ll believe it.
Many people have made such devices I think. There’s probably a guy somewhere with a shelf full of them.
Yeah, also writing 10 GB of data to rolls of sticky tape in the late 90s. It can be done, but it’s not practical.
That’s a lot of start menu ads and telemetry code!
The goddamn telemetry code!!! Is ancient!! That’s why it’s so huge and slow
Was it minority report or the matrix that showed humans storing data on glass?
Either way, this is pretty cool.
Star Trek also has this.
I think the blade runner sequel had something like this too.
I think you’re thinking of Star Wars. Like episode 2 or something.
It was Minority Report, during the sequence when Anderson is going through the footage of the murder in the beginning of the movie. One of the guys puts some video from a nearby computer into a small tablet -size piece of glass and hands it to Anderson who plugs it in and puts the video on the main screen.
We’ve got some pretty good glove mouse things so we’re just kidding the pre-cogs.
in The Expanse their ships are somehow powered/controlled by a shelf of things that look like this
I don’t remember this anywhere in the matrix
In 2001, HAL is disconnected through glass like components.
It seems like it would make for a great replacement for Tape Backups that are currently used for long term storage. They are easy to write to but hard to read from and restore. It’ll probably be a great technology to put backups on especially if it lasts as long as they say. The challenge will probably come in with the specialized reading and writing laser / microscopes being expensive.
According to the article, they’re using their AI cloud service to decode the data, so it’s also likely so computationally expensive to decode that it won’t be practical. Seems more like a gimmick to woo investors that won’t actually ever see real world use, at least not any time soon. I suppose you could make the argument that you can back up data on it now, and hope reading it becomes more practical later, but then it’s more of a supplement to tape backup, rather than a replacement.
There is certainly an element of this being PR for Microsoft. But it is worth considering that a huge amount of computing is done in large data centers.
I think this fact could easily jump-start the use of a technology such as this. If it starts out where every large to mid-sized data center has a reader and writer shared among their thousands of customers it certainly would make it more viable.
I would guess the AI service is MS’s way of trying to make sure they control the technology. Hopefully, it eventually can get replaced by a local AI model rather than MS’s proprietary AI.
using their AI cloud service to decode the data
The hell does that even mean? Is it a model that convinces people it’s decrypting data while taking guesses based on the training set?
My guess is it’s an attempt to build long term a subscription service model behind the idea. No subscription, equals it can’t be read or some contrived bs to leech more money out of users/governments of the encoding/decoding technology.
Is this what Hal 9000’s memories were stored on?
I remember when they told us a CD would last for hundreds of years LOL
Finally. I can store my porn in my glasses.
You can make a jar out of this glass, the good ending.
- You’ll have your porn literally in you
Can they work on the 30 year old code base supporting OneDrive first? How the fuck are we supposed to willingly put our personal data up for ransom through that service?
So… all the from Star Gate glass stuff might be quite accurate?
Don’t forget Isolinear Chips.
Aren’t isolinear chips rewritable though
They were, but odds are a future generation of glass storage will be too. CDs started off as a hard WORM ROM, but eventually a rewriting process was developed. I just checked, CDs are from 1982, and CD-RW were introduced in 1997, so I would likely expect about the same turnaround of ~15 years from when these are released to the public.
Ah, shit… I guess my great, great, great, 100x great Martian grandkids will have to suffer leaked dickpics from ancient times.
