Optical Storage to Last Millions of Years

Hitachi just unveiled a new technology to store binary information as a pattern of dots inside a thin sheet of quartz glass. With a microscope and a computer, they say the data would be retrievable after millions of years. Could this be the silver bullet for long term data storage?

 
People: Jonathan Minard
Research: Open Culture
Tags: archive, archiving, collecting, culture, data, documentary, history, internet, memory, Net-Art