It’s working!

I almost literally yawned reading the title. “Journalists” regurgitating things they don’t understand and hyping them everytime like it’s the breakthrough of the century. I feel it waters down actual breakthroughs and makes people immune or at least apathetic to these stories because it’s the same thing over and over.

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

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.

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.

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“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…

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.

I don’t think it’s that type of “durable.” I think they mean you can read from it forever without having to rewrite the data, which currently isn’t true of platter and solid state storage. This isn’t screen technology, though, it’s storage technology, so I’m not sure the comparison is useful.

I want to know how many times they had to test it before they found one that lasted so long

Nobody uses a 6502 with commodore basic anymore either, I can still pop on an emulator in about 10 seconds to run a game from that era.

Have some information there to build a reader, we can read hieroglyphics and cuneiform and that’s older, more primitive and only written in a few places by a few people.

This is pretty doable.

Article says the glass plates can only be written once, so don’t toss out your hdd just yet

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.

And also remembering what passphrase your ancestors used.

You could use like 10% of the storage to have a pictogram that explains how to read the data.

I don’t remember this anywhere in the matrix

In 2001, HAL is disconnected through glass like components.

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.

I think the blade runner sequel had something like this too.

in The Expanse their ships are somehow powered/controlled by a shelf of things that look like this

Star Trek also has this.

Minority Report had some glass storage stuff that was fun to see. He would insert a glass slide into the machine.

I think you’re thinking of Star Wars. Like episode 2 or something.