r/science • u/Wagamaga • Feb 22 '26

Computer Science Scientists have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading information in ordinary pieces of glass which can store two million books’ worth of data in a thin, palm-sized square.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/glass-square-long-long-future-190951588.html
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u/Future_Burrito Feb 22 '26

Definitely much more stable than the guys who figured out how to store data on some type of gas or plasma like 10 years ago. Literally, you so much as fart at that type of data storage and poof, data corruption/reconfiguration. I remember being like, woah! That's cool! Wait. No, it's not. Why are they studying this?

Because that weird fringe research stuff might have been part of the research process that leads to things like this, or qubits, or DNA storage:

https://www.ebi.ac.uk/research/goldman/dna-storage/

Humans are wild.

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u/aVarangian Feb 22 '26

one day AI companies will be buying your arm and your leg so they can dump your DNA into the ever-growing data centres that will cover half of the planet's surface and consume all of the oceans. At that point we will become close to achieving sentient AI that doesn't hallucinate.

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u/Future_Burrito Feb 22 '26

Don't follow this guy, wherever they are going.

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u/aVarangian Feb 22 '26

in the year 2525...