Hitachi Data Glass

New Glass-Based Data Storage System Would Last For 100 Million Years

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/26/hitachi-data-glass-one-hundred-million-years_n_1916825.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl11%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D211803
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Hitachi Data Glass

 

Sick of transferring your files from device to device, risking loss and corruption?

 

Read this article....WOW!!!

 

 

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

One drop of Windex and it's all over. :P

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Lol I have trouble finding my SD cards at times around let alone a transparent glass chip.

Still looks interesting. I have to wonder how durable this is case you drop it or something. Even thought it goes on being super temperature and radio wave resistant.

Elemental: Reforged
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Does look kind of fragile, doesn't it?

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

It's write only (write once), which is why it's for archives and such only.

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Only needs a microscope to access... imagine what havoc one tiny piece of lint would wreak, or just a bit of a focus problem? Would have to be hermetically sealed and shock proofed...and it's etched...so one shot per piece.

Wonder what a cat could do to it.  ;P

 

I think it's an idea which will need some development... but in principle? Could be great.

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Wow...100 million years huh! Testing must have taken a looooong time. ;P

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

This does seem to be any important part of a lot of sci-fi movies, so I aprrove.  Now I want my hoverboards and lazer guns.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

This is just the first step.  Next another awesome team of geeks (or nerds) will improve the storage density even further and produce a practical laser based reading system.  Then they will move onto holographic storage in cubes of the material capable of storing all the information ever produced by human kind in a 4 by 4 inch cube.  This will of course be perfect for the early quantum computing devices that become self aware as they seek to duplicate themselves and rule the universe.

 

I for one welcome our new computer overlords...

and yes, there will be cake (best to get there early)

backs out of the room slowly...  *_* *_*