Cheap glass can store data for eons · Robert F. Service
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Laser-written patterns could be stable for 10,000 years ROBERT F. SERVICE S cience fiction definitely saw this one coming. Writers for the Superman, Star Trek, and Mission Impossible franchises all dreamed up the idea of storing libraries of data in glass. Now, Microsoft researchers say they are bringing this vision closer to reality by storing nearly 2 terabytes (TB) of data—enough for hundreds of thousands of photos or hundreds of hours of video—in coaster-size plates of glass. The new approach, described this week in Nature, could archive data for thousands of years, simply and cheaply. dry in sealed vials and protected from ultraviolet light. microscope camera to record the pattern in each data layer. …
摘自《科学》(Science)第391卷 第6787期 · 2026年2月19日,Robert F. Service。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。