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

  • Arondeus@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    19
    ·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      1 year ago

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

    • aeronmelon@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      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.

    • BreakDecks@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

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