You can make a jar out of this glass, the good ending.

• You’ll have your porn literally in you

0.1% of the intended storage duration?

Given the 20 years of development between the first VTR and VHS, the 100% development to storage lifetime of that technology seems pretty large in comparison.

Also, how silly would it be if we put things into glass for 10,000 years and then 5 years later there’s a format war like VHS vs Beta and we need to redo everything?

Intelligent life in the future will find 10,000 year old records from present day humanity and be so frustrated by the multiple competing formats over the first 100 of those years that they won’t even bother trying to read it.

Of all the things to take time with to get right, extremely long term storage seems like one of the more prudent.

Don’t forget Isolinear Chips.

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Is that from Star Trek?

I have pendrives that look almost like that.

“Aliens”

Turns out to be the lewd anthropomorphic creatures glass plate

“There is only the true religion of the Void, these heretic artifacts must be destroyed”

Archaeologist in 1005 years: "We have translated the folder names on this glass storage device! The writings within refer to a important man named “Brazzers”, and there is another folder full of his correspondence to his “step sister” and someone named “Milf”.

Data is data, you could store anything there. The question is if this would eventually reach some sort of consumer market. By the looks of it it’s in a very early stage (where all equipment to read and write is still in RnD phase) so it’s not where you can have a sata cable attached to it in your pc.

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

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

Pfft just wait till we figure out Xenonite.

Isolinear chips have arrived.

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.

Optical communications, optical computers, optical storage.

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.

If the glass is nothing special, each piece would cost cents and be like burning CD’s back in the day, except infinitely recyclable.

What’s more important is the time and cost to read and write.

“Bob, why the hell did you format this as ‘Jim sux dicks’?! You know that’s permanent, right?”

10K years later

Alien captain: Anything to report?

Alien: We need to find a being named “Jim”, sir…

Backup wikipedia once a year to a crystal and then civilizations thousands of years from now can comb through it as they wish.

So it’s great for archival storage. This is exactly the type of thing I’m interested in if it was cheap enough.

So its cd but fom the future

True, but being very easy to make would hopefully keep costs down, allowing you to have multiple plates.

Also, this may not be for home use but companies that need to store data for years.

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That’s Glass-R but fot a few bucks more you can get a Glass-RW

Woooow