Microsoft's plan to store data for 10,000 years

[@JesseOrrall]

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[@nintenjoeee]

HOLOLENS

[@Gilotopia]

The looking glass 8k holographic display. Ask them if you can stack a few and make an artificial window like in doctor Strange

[@atanughosh8312]

This is known as phase change memory (PCM). fs-Laser pulse is changing the crystalline state of that special material (Ge2Sb2Te5, etc.) into amorphous blobs by melting first and then quenching it immediately.

[@jessstuart7495]

Multi-chip modules (MCM's)

[@msya2831]

WTFuck?

[@jfpost]

2000: deleting your watch history 3000: scattering your watch history

[@bluemopdisaster6445]

Me: " got a scratch faster!"

[@Scarletraven87]

Are people mistaking this for rewritable storage? It's like a DVD folks.

[@ls200076]

@@notjered8911 Humanity would be evolved into another species.

[@venomousicon8855]

Mom: Where is your search history? Future people: *Gone, reduced to atoms.*

[@mrdingles5107]

Millions of gigs on small piece of glass Cat: Don't need this*smack*

[@jasminamber200]

😐

[@Nexalian_Gamer]

Then the cat goes into the incinerator.

[@mrdingles5107]

@Yujiro Hanma yeah but you wasted time to read it and reply anyway.

[@dr2d2]

Ltt drops it

[@Forgetthereality]

@@dr2d2 underrated comment

[@shuvospeaking3250]

Remember that famous quote: "Glass is glass & glass breaks"

[@bestbry1]

Shuvo Speaking everything portable breaks. Even top ssds

[@b8702131]

Remember glass scratches at level 6 with deeper grooves at 7.

[@patthonsirilim5739]

yes but not by itself the idea of this is to be able to store a hardrive that is not as sensative to tempreture and enviormental change as somthing like a hdd film or ssd

[@shubhamchandra5417]

@@b8702131 I HEARD ZACK IN MY HEAD

[@bruhdabones]

Shuvo Speaking 60% of the quote is the word GLASS

[@gavin9068]

I read the title as “Microsoft’s plan to store *your* data for 10,000 years”

[@davdavdavdavdavdavdav]

Gavin basically what theyre gonna do with it anyways

[@aceshadowins1310]

@@davdavdavdavdavdavdav sell it to the gov't duhhh

[@anSealgair]

Lolcats are priceless

[@Iliek]

That's literally what they want to do.

[@arianadiego3709]

yep, that sounds more realistic for microjunk...

[@maythesciencebewithyou]

10 thousand years later: "what is this?" "looks like some ancient records"? "How do we read them"? "Don't know, they forgot to make devices that last as long as the records"

[@voip001]

Stop that! You are using your own brain. That is not allowed :)))

[@vovakrivbass]

Titanium carbon fiber glass plates player projector will solve the problem.

[@noneyourbiddness2566]

Im saving one of thos old free internet start up disks! 56k of course

[@sciencecompliance235]

vovakrivbass Carbon fiber wouldn't last that long. Titanium might, though.

[@trekadouble757]

They could carve the instructions about how to build devices on metal or glass and put them with the glass records.

[@jhonlev9104]

500 thousand years later..... Historians: mmmm Hentai a culture that we respect.

[@Janken_Pro]

Jhon Lev hentai becomes the world religion then.

[@sownheard]

🥵 symbol of culture

[@walidali8669]

@@Janken_Pro Islam

[@Danuxsy]

@@walidali8669 Religion will probably not be a thing by then.

[@Danuxsy]

@@mrteco4236 Atheism.

[@skaiano]

2:33 “The Superman movie was chosen to pioneer this technology because Microsoft will soon be testing the possibility of storing PEOPLE in glass like general Zod in the phantom zone”

[@mustachewalrus]

You win, good comment.

[@3089280288]

I was thinking the crystals

[@graffitikingdom4081]

🤣🤣🤣

[@eafortson]

This was legit my first thought.

[@DR-mp4gv]

🤣😂😂😂😂

[@chicken636]

10,000 years later, an advanced civilization plays the data: "🎵🎵🎵We're no strangers to loooove"

[@thireevzandvokeshouldship7768]

You know the rules and so do I

[@sonicfon]

Oh yeah, whatever, nevermind.

[@KertaDrake]

Advanced Civilization: "Who writes a single song and 200TB of explicit images on a window?"

[@connormcgowan2537]

I woke up in a cold sweat worrying that my browser history wasn’t going to outlive me by 10,000 years, but thankfully I watched this video and I feel much better.

[@mikenonya9741]

Funny, because I woke up in a cold sweat worrying that my browser history would outlive me by 10,000 years, then I watched this video and I feel much worse. Lord judge us not by our browsing history.

[@shimeih2287]

Comment and first reply are pure legendary 😂😂😂 Thanks for making my day

[@manjsher3094]

Mr Musk you got other worries.

[@dem4xed]

I love when people get the joke.

[@thothheartmaat2833]

Now future historians in 9,999 years can know how much we all spanked it.

[@piratesmvp]

I saw Satya Nadella announce this at Microsoft Ignite 2019, and I was very excited about the possibilities of using this as archive storage! LTO tape is currently the standard for long-term backup, but even LTO has a shelf life.

[@davidkoch9123]

"to make sure that this content is available for generations to come" means old content (like Superman 1978 or Wizard of Oz) being still copyrighted in 10000 years. Cool.

[@TyyyJ]

Great, so you've found a way to make a negative out of an exciting new technology that has the potential to save the collective knowledge of our species from bring lost to time.

[@davidkoch9123]

@@TyyyJ Don't get me wrong, I'm "excited" as one can be from such a technology. It's just that the accessibility to such technology is not affordable to the mass, and I'm still not really convinced if readers of such media will be available in the future. Look, what was one a major breakout in technology is now, 10, 20 or 30 years later, considered a complete obsolete medium. Remember zip drives ? Remember even magneto optical drives ? If you get to find some lost media, could you read them back to recover their content ? Anyway, I'll repeat, the depicted technology is indeed promising, I've heard of such technology before already. Would it be guaranteed to be supported for the next 10000 years ?

[@davidkoch9123]

@@bryangutierrez Yeah I know about Disney's copyright laws extension (it's even became a meme now). Good for them if they have to extend life of old franchises because they lack imagination to create new ones. Well, isn't Zootopia a new one ? Or Moana ? So let's give credit where credit is due. Anyway, as an archival storage medium, I find it cool, but it won't make a 1977 movie a 8K or 4D holographic (as of 10000 AD) one, it's still limited to the technologies' limitation when it was shot, then digitalized. But again, I just hope such technology would be made affordable to the people that would save their numeric pictures for the next generations. Because, you know, floppy drives or burned cdroms tends to fails after a while.

[@TyyyJ]

@@davidkoch9123 the difference between this and something like, say, floppy disks, is that it isn't meant to be a consumer product, isn't meant to be rewritten and strips down the storage medium to its barest, least complicated form specifically for the task of extremely long-term storage of information and absolutely nothing else. It isn't meant to replace current technologies as clearly it's not as efficient as flash storage for example, and is just meant as a last resort backup that doesn't degrade over time. I don't see any reason why this will affect the average person negatively.

[@davidkoch9123]

@@TyyyJ The "average person" produces a tons of digital content too, and despite not being copyrighted, it might too have some value, probably not corporate value, but emotional and historical value. Can we store everything ? I bet the technology can, especially the one presented above. Can the "average person" save the valuable assets s/he produced with as much longevity ? Seems like it won't be at hand, and some people will have to accept their content isn't worth saving for the future generations. I'm wondering what archaeologists of the future will think of our generations from what they'll dig up.

[@logan2906]

"It can't be destroyed." "Hey guys this is the hydraulic press channel!"

[@KertaDrake]

Today on "Will it Blend?"

[@apoorvh1]

"Scratches at level 6 with deeper grooves at level 7"

[@ben10dev]

I got that....😂😂

[@miniontm69]

Jerryrig

[@noobhunter105]

Let’s do a bend test, looks like it’s cracks with no resistance

[@gabenewell9288]

stolen comment

[@2h4]

Lol

[@josh_7785]

Earthquake: *I’m boutta end this mans whole career*

[@Guide4Ever]

It would have destroyed it either way?

[@thetruthexperiment]

Yeah, because there’s no glass in Los Angeles, and there’s no such thing as foam.

[@Safwan.Hossain]

Protective case for the glass: *I'm boutta end this whole earthquake's career*

[@pedrogomez5835]

Even if it does crack it can still be read. The only way it can’t be read is if the glass is melted or grained

[@nopretribrapture2318]

@@Guide4Ever yep Bible truths : Matthew 24:7 Isaiah 24 rev 16:8 Luke 21:11-31 all of Matthew 24 etc

[@ninjanerdstudent6937]

Fire: can't destroy the film. Water: can't destroy the film. Gravity: *_enters chat_*

[@umersalman1]

Sir Isaac Newton: "Gravity never left the chat."

[@ManomiiFox]

Gorilla Glass 6 has entered the chat.

[@TropicOfCancer1998]

Quantum gorilla glass is waiting to enter the chat

[@SouravBagchigoogleplus]

Black Hole: super gravity

[@zxcytdfxy256]

Whole Food Plant-Based Man still can't destroy it

[@Andrew-ig5sp]

I’d love this for family photos. It’s a serious issue for many people with only digital copies. I fear one day some tiny corrupt bit will wipeout 10 years of my photos.

[@viktorvlasov483]

Than you should have 3 storages in 3 different places. That's almost a guarantee.

[@futuresocieties.]

Good idea, now that everything is digital it's accessible to everyone anywhere. The problem with it being digital though is it can easily corrode. Put it on the blockchain though and it doesn't matter how old the data is (:

[@TheGargalon]

AWS S3 - I pay cents each month for over 50GB of data storage and I don't imagine amazon disappearing any time soon

[@Andrew-ig5sp]

NDD that’s a good idea. I’ll check out amazons offer. I currently use iCloud back up, and I upload everything to google photos too (although the unlimited free option compressed the photos a little. It’s the backup if all other backups fail.) I’d pay for another cloud option, if it was cheap enough, for another full quality backup.

[@TheGargalon]

@@Andrew-ig5sp Just keep in mind AWS is not something for consumers like dropbox or icloud, it comes with a learning curve

[@b8702131]

How many thought the reason why they started with Superman: the Movie was because Kryptonians stored their data in crystals?

[@mlaygo]

But glass is amorphous, not crystalline.

[@ShawnHodgins]

@@mlaygo if so, then is this actual "glass" they are using?

[@sciencecompliance235]

mlaygo This comment right here, officer. It was mine, and he stole it.

[@Smooth_Operator]

the isssue is that you probably can't change data stored there, so it's more like a flashdrive that you can't overwrite. and once you add something to it you can't change.

[@Vysair]

@@Smooth_Operator so magnetic tape?

[@jadrianmc3420]

Microsoft: That technology can store data for 10,000 yea--- Me: **drops it** Microsoft: ....

[@cybu8383]

yeah i think they could work on a protective coating that could be read through

[@WolvePriest]

JadrianMc: Glass is glass and glass bre- Microsoft: Actually, you need to grind it up to dust or melt it to make it unreadable.

[@sachinpatel1451]

Plot twist : It's a bullet proof glass

[@tapwater424]

Glass is actually very strong. Remember that phone screens have a very thin layer of glass.

[@fakestory1753]

the video already said the damage won't be severe data are completely covered inside the glass

[@Nishith8]

Then use that glass to make Windows.

[@chapo335]

I suppose the windows of buildings could hold the knowledge that tells you the history of the building up to the present day, it could also let people know about the population of the building and who is inside it, it even could be hooked up to the Internet allowing the worlds information and beyond to be looked at whilst you are still in your bedroom.

[@hanhong2267]

@@chapo335 Local and emergency information could be stored there as well!

[@aartboerland31]

I think you all missed the joke 😂👌🤣

[@abdurrahmanf.a.5624]

@@aartboerland31 and finally we wont receive windows update notification for thousand years

[@mackenzierynebagtong8549]

@@aartboerland31 so what? :\

[@misakamikoto8785]

Jerryrigseverything: Glass is glass, and glass will break.

[@Karudzik]

glass scratches at a level 6 with deeper groves at level 7

[@ferrujadoo2548]

@Bootie McNuggets It's a meme so of course it's copied

[@mackenzierynebagtong8549]

Also glass when it breaks, the data is still there and can be readable.

[@delrasshial7200]

Perhaps

[@naxzed_it]

@@mackenzierynebagtong8549 **furiously scratches the glass**

[@AzngameFreak03]

2030: SAMSUNG GLASSDRIVE 3030 EVO 9000TB - $20

[@prla5400]

I'll get you one for 5

[@Niyazmen]

But it would be read-only

[@ankitsaxena7324]

Rreading speed: 500GBPS Writing Speed: 480GBPS

[@ClonesDream]

@@odinasgard1197 I bought a 1TB Samsung SSD for some $100

[@akasection]

@@Niyazmen dude, if it was 9000 TB for $20, I don't even need to rewrite. Just stack it up and use Windows File History to make it look like as one file.

[@afstar101]

Microsoft: Glass storage is the future for keeping the files longer safely. Meanwhile me: Yanks the pendrive out of the usb port without safely ejecting it.

[@charli9289]

well it hasn’t done anything bad for me, like ever... idk why it’s a feature... edit: also I get the joke (so don’t wooosh/correct me)

[@Janken_Pro]

Sombodi so that the drive doesn't get corrupted if it's still writing some data.

[@afstar101]

@@charli9289 haha, well actually it did corrupted my data defore. It usually happens with sd cards. So i think it's quite a handy feature if your data is critical!

[@afstar101]

@@Janken_Pro True, it does get corrupted, happend to me before even if it is not writing something.

[@W-meme]

Manufactured at massive level this will be much more cheaper and durable than pendrives i.e. if it can store terabytes of data.

[@IasenAleksandrov]

When Microsoft tries to develop technology based on real parts of windows.

[@_KennethG]

Staying true to the cause

[@dan_youtube]

Unlike apple

[@IasenAleksandrov]

​@@dan_youtube Apple are unlucky because of organic material

[@dzp11177]

When microsoft *does*

[@dan_youtube]

@@IasenAleksandrov they could store information in Apple's DNA

[@naxzed_it]

Glass storage Zack: Glass is glass, and glass breaks. Scratches at a level 6, with deeper grooves at a level 7.

[@sbrazenor2]

They say it's glass, but it might be something like saphire glass, which is more durable.

[@MrSyesyoli]

This remind me of Minority Report scene....

[@3089280288]

What we see in movies might be ordinary. In fact Spielberg consulted various futurist to see what could be the next tech

[@therealb888]

Interracial is da life, love em white chicks!✌🏾

[@stevethea5250]

@@3089280288 which scene

[@Iliek]

That movie is predictive programming, social engineering. Good job having yourself programmed.

[@SilverLakeKingdom]

I don't remember other movie titles now but there lots more movies from 90s where "future civilizations" used glass for the storage of memory.

[@kailas-venkat]

"Look through that window" "What a beautiful yard you've got for your home!" "That is my library"

[@mackenzierynebagtong8549]

Hahahaha!

[@miguelnglopes]

To be of use to a caveman 20,000 years in the future, storage must include its own robust and durable built in playback and display mechanism.

[@boulderbash19700209]

They can find the player at **iths***an m***um

[@boulderbash19700209]

It's Smithsonian museum, but it's 20,000 years already and a few characters had eroded from the plaque.

[@Camelotsmoon]

Ya, the biggest point of failure is the mechanism to play the media back, not necessarily the storage device itself. You can verify that by just looking at what's happening to VHS, 8track and cassette; there will still be plenty of storage devices left, but not enough media players (certainly not enough quality players). Who's to even say that so called person would even know how to operate the device if they didn't know either? Too many points of failure.

[@FlorenceSlugcat]

The Wanderer that is not true. Theses plates are ment as backup. Think of vhs, if you have the only one left of a film and it’s a vhs, you’ll get it backed up from vhs and transfer on other devices. This is not for consumer use, this is for backup. It takes 1 device to transfer on other storage and clone it, you don’t need to watch movie using plate. It’s a backup. Even if 0 vhs reader are left in existence, if a last copy of a movie is in vhs, we have the technology to build a new vhs reader. This is not a problem, we clone the backup on another device

[@FlorenceSlugcat]

The key part is to have a backup where we can recover files from if others are all lost.

[@CaptainCody7]

Glass is actually a fluid and flows. This is why old glass warps. I doubt it is the best means for storage. I like the microscopy etching though, very similar to two photon electron microscopy used in neuroscience.

[@Phlegethon]

What’s interesting is no one is surprised you can do this. Imagine telling someone 200 years ago you can store moving picture and sound in a piece of glass

[@nikunjsingh9169]

Heretic! We will burn you on a stake!

[@Alexed.w]

Tbh I'm still getting over being hyped about steam engines

[@philip5273]

I mean it's basically just CD's but the data is stored a little deeper rather than on the surface.

[@fawadmirza.]

Elon Musk: Lets send 10TB of Anime to space for aliens for 10,000 years

[@theguh728]

. ꓝᥲᴡᥲꓓ࿐ A special gift made by humans at Earth

[@galgun2]

He should

[@HellblazersChannel]

So gather all the available medical, science, history, movies, books, photos, blueprints, languages, maps, ect. and duplicate it on all the continents. As well, store the data on several heavily insulated satellites at the L2 Lagrange Point. They could bring them back with timed returns if we lost the ability to communicate with them. History has been lost with so many ancient civilizations already. It would crazy to restart if the worlds information was lost to war, solar flairs, meteor impacts ect.

[@grafknives9544]

The truth is that this technology requires very high tech levels to read data. It is not good "collapse protection". For that you will need an actual physical, human readable (magnified) data storage.

[@sciencecompliance235]

word The "Pandora's box" analogy is meant to be a bad thing, as the box contained evil. I don't think that's what you meant to say.

[@OU81TWO]

@@sciencecompliance235 "Can of worms" might be more appropriate.

[@sciencecompliance235]

OU812 That still has negative connotations.

[@electronresonator8882]

not war....it is something else, the winner will censor or even destroy whatever data that will make them look bad or cause future problem

[@alberteinsteinthejew]

But the next civilization who will find our ruins will think this is just regular glass

[@adraedin]

Re: DNA storage. There's actually this neat experiment I read about years ago about how they converted a simple song to a DNA sequence, had the organisms multiply, then generations down the line they were able to extract the song from the DNA again. Pretty cool.

[@PlanetXtreme]

That sounds pretty cool. I remember hearing a theory that if aliens wanted to show their existence to us, they “could” store data/an Easter egg of sorts in our dna a long time ago and we just have to find it. I obviously don’t believe that’s true, but it’s possible as it’s passed down.

[@arkachattopadhyay4751]

That's what Assassin's creed is based on.

[@berretta9mm17]

@@PlanetXtreme It's very possible - almost likely, if they were the ones who manipulated out DNA to separate us from other hominids. We have a wealth of what they call "Junk DNA," but in my experience nothing in nature or higher-order engineering is ever "Junk." We just need to decode it, and sequence it properly, like any other language.

[@PlanetXtreme]

@@berretta9mm17 I think Darwin's theory has a bit more credibility but nothing is impossible for sure. I think it would be awesome if your posed idea _was_ true, but I don't see enough evidence now for its likelihood.

[@dunsbroccoli2588]

Humans: so many real, terrible problems Humans: we can’t lose these tv shows

[@kamranbashir4842]

Teacher: Where is your homework Me: My cat knocked it out of the shelf.

[@nikunjsingh9169]

Or maybe, My windows broke. So i needed to use it to patch the windows up.

[@FlorenceSlugcat]

This technology is not directed towards consumer use. It is only for long term storage of files, they are like a backup that will last a long time, supposed to stay in a storage at one place, not as a flash drive

[@asandax6]

@@FlorenceSlugcat And you think 🤔 we don't want that because right now I'm willing to drop a grand fpr one of those glass things.

[@nicholasxayasith55]

I seem to remember reading somewhere in the early 2000's that IBM was working on a "holographic" storage medium, similar to this whereby a cube of what appeared to be glass was written onto by lasers and could store massive amounts of information in a small physical footprint. This looks impressive for read-only long-term data storage. On the other hand, I also think back to Britan's Domesday Project from 1986 and in less than 20 years the information on the specifically created discs readable only through specifically created machines were almost lost forever due to their very uniqueness and rarity. If this method of long-term data storage wants to get anywhere close to 10,000 years of viability, it first needs to become a widespread standard and popular enough to be easily copied, shared, supported, and convertible to whatever newer standards should arrive on the scene in 25 to 200 years. In 500 years laser-read glass plates could easily disappear and people use re-writeable synthetic nano-machine DNA clusters to store their digital lives on, accessable via an architecture and protocol we could barely imagine now. But hey, its a start!

[@jeanmouloude]

"store data in dna" THAT HOW THE FORERUNNERS CREATED MASTER CHIEF

[@coffeepot3123]

*Guitar riff gets louder* ..

[@chlemtom1]

Microsoft is already doing that as well.

[@marranin007]

*halo theme plays

[@RyanSettle]

This is what I saw in “Minority Report” years ago. Incredible tech that will revolutionize data farms.

[@SMGJohn]

Probably 5 to 10 years this technology or its derivatives will become standard consumer technology most likely replacing Blu-ray if they can increase the write speed to at least a 100MB/s

[@Sonu666]

n00b. Bluray and discs can already be replaced with flash memory their price is competent. Problem is companies greed to not fix something it ain't broke. Xbox & PlayStation.. Microsoft and Sony are not like Apple to forcefully remove headphone jack...their discs are easy and make things easy. Look at Nintendo already on flash and 64GB cards games launching soon enough. Anyone would pay $10 extra if it meant games on cards.

[@boulderbash19700209]

I think it is a read only thing.

[@SethMethCS]

Don’t underestimate the bandwidth of a package full of discs, and in the future full of glass cards. Downloads and streaming for the masses and packages of physical media for when download speed isn’t fast enough. I just hope we don’t lose our data before this is mass produced. Until then, I’m archiving my data on BD-Rs.

[@fxght]

@@Sonu666 "n00b"

[@coder0xff]

​@@boulderbash19700209 Doesn't have to be.

[@TheMagicMinute]

I would have thought they chose Superman because of the crystals in his fortress of solitude closely resembling this technology...

[@r.a.j7725]

It’s essentially a Star Trek micro-tape.

[@paulcheek5711]

Coincidence or did star trek know something the rest of us did not

[@635574]

Basically if you can use lasers glass is the safest permanent storage clear medium so far.

[@r.a.j7725]

Dave Hanson Nope. Isolinear chips are different to micro tapes which are more of a TOS fare.

[@j.3637]

Now imagine old pieces of glass could have memory in them.

[@boxfox2945]

Ur windows become ur computer towers. A new gimic for windows'😅

[@fancyIOP]

How CDs should have been made from the start... Microsoft is amazing, no wonder they are big on enterprise 🙌🏿👌🏿🔥

[@SMGJohn]

You do realise the development of CD started already in the 60s and did not reach market until early 80s in Japan, the technology back then was just not there, RCA killed themselves developing their Vinyl video format which stored video data in grooves.

[@fancyIOP]

@@SMGJohn all I was saying was CDs should have been this way from commercial usage. All our CDs would have survived "scratches" like cassettes did, that's what I was saying.

[@ig00g1e]

"We take incredibly seriously." Sound like something that is life and death.

[@solar-monk]

Superman crystals.

[@jenofjennifer]

SM lol

[@chanman4469]

The Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) is an optical disc technology developed between April 2004 and mid-2008 that can store up to several terabytes of data on an optical disc 10 cm or 12 cm in diamete

[@Kamuigod2001]

So our descendants can enjoy all the cat videos too!

[@nikunjsingh9169]

Even the musical? I can imagine them watching it and discovering what was called horror in 2020s.

[@Ammarx1]

lmao i just imagined someone in 1000 years from now listening to mumble rap

[@mateusoliveira2776]

the 'data cube' shown in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy is closer and closer

[@streamingjunkie4397]

I need a home version of this to store my Plex library :)

[@alexgieder9107]

This is some future tech that I would have never thought of seeing. Way to go Microsoft!

[@verifeli]

It's technically already exists since 80s, but okay.

[@fd2613]

Scratches start at level 6 with deeper grooves at level 7

[@CarpenterBrother]

We should archive entirety of human knowledge in a vault somewhere, in case of a civilization collapse. Instructions on how to read the data can be given the same way it was done with Voyager Golden Record, except it would be much easier, since we can make some assumptions about those future humans and how they would interpret the instructions.

[@boxfox2945]

Done that. Using salt mines. They store everything in those.

[@shoaibahmedkhan6287]

I wonder if it scratches at level 6 with deeper grooves at level 7

[@terencedsouza2885]

They are probably using sapphire

[@AWARHERO]

The Kryptonians used crystals to store data, so Superman being the first movie saved on this medium is quite fitting. The shape reminds me of the 1,44 Mb disk and those used in Star Trek Original series.

[@ricardobustamante4475]

Hitachi has had this for some years, called “Fused Silicon”. What makes microsofts solution different/better?

[@DropsTheMike]

Branding.

[@ohyeahminecraft]

For years? Exactly. It's going nowhere with them clearly lol

[@Iliek]

Microsoft like always, takes a product designed and worked on by other people and uses them to make a profit and to monopolize the market.

[@zinthos99]

@@Iliek like what?

[@Powaup]

This is super Sci-Fi and really cool. Hope we see it come up more often, not necessarily for consumer but b2b for sure

[@expertcontributor8464]

100 years ago the film industry intentionally destroyed their libraries of silent films, considering them a worthless waste of space when sound films became possible. It certainly represents how far western society in particular has come, from one of ignorance and inability to foresee how we can learn from history, to one where we appreciate all that has come before us, and respectfully wish to preserve that for the benefit of generations to come.

[@amit4Bihar]

Lol it was not an appreciation of heritage but the loss of profits

[@TheFourthWinchester]

Respect has nothing to do with it. This is just trying to keep Disney at bay with lots of content.

[@Phlegethon]

This guy watched silent films in his free time?

[@pickupthelantern6395]

that is A M A Z I N G the idea that glass can be used to store data could not have crossed my mind in a thousand years

[@gary-xh1nl]

Right now: behold my secret room with tons of films 🎥 20 years later: hold my glass chip containing 700,000 films

[@frenchy16785]

I worked in that team. I was a runaround for sure. But point is I worked in that team. Good luck guys!

[@paladro]

because when we are recovering from the next ice age, WB will want its royalties.

[@SouthIndia]

a BIG Thumbs-Up to all your team work for this extraordinary invention.

[@Sigurther]

I would literally donate my left testicle to be one of the people working on transferring these files over. Media transfer and data storage is a love of mine, and tho I do it primarily for personal purposes, this would be a perfect fit. I would take utmost care in this job, mostly because my love of various mediums and my desire for data preservation. Hearing about a data storage medium that can survive for thousands of years without no data corruption makes me giddy like a schoolboy.

[@MarcosGarcia-xg1rf]

No one asked for your job application and resume

[@RAndrewNeal]

They better not throw away those film reels. Their image quality is possibly much higher than what has been digitized on the glass, as the grain of the film was so fine from decades of development. It could possibly surpass 4k resolution.

[@abdur1996]

Super interesting video as a dev who's worked with cloud data storage on Azure myself!

[@RealXFool]

10000 years ago: -Lets store some information, papyrus will do.

[@KertaDrake]

Time to go green with data storage! Use lasers to burn data to recyclable paper! Oh wait, that's just punch cards and a fire hazard....

[@joaodecarvalho7012]

What a lovely technology. I love things that last. It is also beautiful. It reminds me of the HAL 9000 computer.

[@qwertyui90qwertyui90]

Looks to be write only, which is good :) yet bad depending on application, but for long term storage of things like movies, or software ISO images, it would be amazing. Also choosing superman seems appropriate given that in the superman moves and shows, the kryptonians store information in crystals

[@FlutterLuvbread]

microsoft should work on a functional updater or no software decay

[@AbdullahAldhfyan]

So, how fast it's writing/reading now?

[@MrSidney9]

Seems like that's the area of challenge at this point

[@menotu000]

Slow & Slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow

[@NicOz42]

@@menotu000 How much sloooooooooooooooooooow?

[@M0d4l3]

The 5D data crystal I've been hearing about for a few years now. Back then they also stored it in layers, requiring the reader to focus on the right layer. Is that the case here?

[@paxwebb]

Scientists: Forget the sum knowledge of the human race... let's store the Superman movie lol

[@sciencecompliance235]

Superman is canonical!

[@Iliek]

The human species has numerous sub species, aka races. A human race does not exist.

[@ahzlos8479]

@@Iliek lol

[@fftere]

@@Iliek Pls tell me you're joking

[@Smooth_Operator]

the isssue is that you probably can't change data stored there, so it's more like a flashdrive that you can't overwrite. and once you add something to it you can't change.

[@robertheller4583]

It the anime Dr Stone (highly recommend to watch) There is a glass disc that contains the Voice recordings of the astronauts before everyone turned into stone

[@aquahoodjd]

I don't know why they're not using something much more hardier like a cube and borosilicate glass or actual crystal given the fact that it's much less fragile and if you write the data deep enough it doesn't matter how profound the scratching is on the surface It can be easily buffed out..

[@ContagiousRepublic]

HOWEVER the reader has DRM in it you need to pay for each year, which turns out so unpopular the DRM servers die after 2 years. Welcome to software as a service!!!

[@naxzed_it]

Piracy is no glass

[@BAGINAZARD]

We have seen this technology in science fiction movies for YEARS! who knew it would become a reality!

[@alberteinsteinthejew]

10000 years later: ancient astronaut theorists say yes!

[@BrenainnJordan]

nice! kinda reminds me of the isolinear chips from Star Trek, very cool!

[@LanDiEvil]

Some cave paintings have lasted longer than ten thousand years.

[@MrSidney9]

Cavemen didn't worry about accuracy.

[@miguelnglopes]

@@MrSidney9 They were quite accurate, in fact.

[@gonun69]

Yes, but the data density is way to low.

[@LanDiEvil]

@@miguelnglopes Indeed. Those pictures were state of the art back then and dont look that much different now.

[@LanDiEvil]

@@gonun69 Maybe not but the pictures and hand tracing had redundancy due to the vast number of copies of each hand / stick figure.

[@aronhegedus]

question is whether or not you can amend data once it's written to the glass, and how fast you can access data. I feel like those questions werent addressed

[@762kilo]

Don’t forget to construct a building that can last 10000 years😂🙄

[@sbrazenor2]

If you only build a building that can last 1000 years, you can just move the content to another building later. I'm sure they've moved the archive a few times over the years.

[@SC-hd5ut]

Looking forward to see this glass plates as a light inference large language model. Required power consumption nearly zero.

[@janmejayraj8687]

So when can i boot Windows with this?

[@notion1182]

Don't drop it...

[@ARRaju-bb5fo]

JerryRig : glass is glass and glass can break.

[@maythesciencebewithyou]

anything can break. A strong glass isn't worse than a stone tablet

[@nikunjsingh9169]

Plus as they said, they can still read data from it. Only way to destroy it would be to completely obliterate it. Melt it or grind it.

[@AtohV]

so how is the data recovered? how do they get the film off the glass? how do they play the data on the glass?

[@phat1595]

The people: *they last for 10K years* Me: *glass don’t last that much*

[@voidofspaceandtime4684]

it does

[@ls200076]

well, it does

[@IWatchAndLearn]

Long term storage only. I assume this will not be replacing USBs anytime soon especially for constant read write processes.

[@cujoedaman]

Wow, actual innovation that has some use in the real world. Been a long time since I've seen that. I remember when Segways came out, everyone thought the company had some kind of anti-gravity device or some kind of super computer that could fit in your pocket, but it turned out to be a skateboard with a handlebar. Also wonder if this is kinda out Isolinear chips from Star Trek work.

[@rainz4867]

So, It's a transparent SSD?

[@TamimLB]

So these are the people trying to solve the problem Linus was freaking out about.

[@hisuiibmpower4]

I recognize most of the devices of doing recording in this video ,optics from thorlab,translation stages from aerotech

[@lanchesternaanyane]

When can we put memes on it?

[@nekikins4936]

So what actually is the R W speeds right now?

[@theonlytails]

Glass is glass, and glass breaks...

[@ma7mgte]

They already said that the data is still recoverable if the glass breaks.

[@julianW1993]

Scratches at a level 6 with deeper grooves at level 7

[@Langkowski]

In Superman's Fortress of Solitude the information is stored on glass or crystal, so it is fitting that the movie is stored on a similar material.

[@Spartacus547]

Looks like isolinear chips from Star Trek. Star Trek predicting the future again 😂

[@jbrassard100]

Or the Tau’ri crystals in stargate.

[@ronaldgarrison8478]

I'm glad there are these efforts at making more durable storage media. However, we need to be much more concerned about rounding up everything that has not yet been digitized and archiving it in digital form. Every publicly available document should be archived in digital form. That opens the door to doing a wide variety of things that will make that information much more useful and valuable. And many key benefits of that do not manifest until you have complete sets of data/documents. I don't know if this is being taken seriously enough. The more popular media items have surely been long since made digital, but there must be millions of items still out there that are just sitting around on paper or some other medium that can only be dealt with in extremely labor-intensive ways.