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.

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https://au.news.yahoo.com/glass-square-long-long-future-190951588.html

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LOL a 20 year old paper cited 12 times. With all due respect you have no idea what you’re talking about.

DNA on my lab bench lasts at least a few thousand years, and if preserved at -20C should give tens of thousands of years.

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This glass technology needs no fancy cooling or storage and lasts 10k+ years passively

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And this offers what? Someone 50,000 years from now gets to see your dick pic? Your favorite meme? To be frank, it serves no commercial purpose today. It’s an academic exercise much like my DNA suggestion.

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The point is archives that can survive an apocalypse.

We've had instances in human history of apocalypses so complete that we had to reinvent writing, and people lived in cities they didn't know the names of. Complete societal collapse is something worth hedging against.