The Library That Lasts | Hugh Howey

[@osmmanipadmehum]

you should get involved in convincing data storage companies to produce alternative lower tech interfaces for devices. For harddrives, Sata is probably much more difficult to read off of than parallel ata, and more protocols are also added logically to make more layers top of the real data in the drive, such as encryption, file systems, partitions, compression and file formats. These all make it more difficult to access especially if the available tech is lower than what the device normally requires to run, and in case make shift tech is needed to improvise an interface to read the data. Ideally a drive that can take a digital address (on the harddrive) as input and a ascii character as output would be easiest to manually retreive the contents. This would ideally behoove someone to create a method of access and storage on the drive where everything is stored in ascii or some other simple binary format. This could perhaps even be done as demonstration, by using physical switches on a harddrive to put the address, and leds or even lightbulbs outputting one single letter at that address. That would bypass all needs for computers and much of other tech.

[@dackdel]

also datacenters or 'm-disc' can be burnt to the ground much like paper.

[@andersonmorgan1610]

thanks for your beautiful comment

[@andersonmorgan1610]

thank you so much for the comment

[@manyRafting]

What is really remarkable about this talk is the gorgeous lady with the blue dress that appears at 8:45.

[@kukulroukul4698]

No ! its the brunette at 51:15 :)