While I think that's unlikely, though not impossible, it's the retrieval of the data that's the problem. I've worked on databases where the indexes took up more space than the data.
At 02:15 AM 1/27/04, you wrote:
On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 13:20, Steve Desjardins wrote: > It is an interesting problem, e.g., how much of the record from our time > will be erased or preserved over the next 2000 years, even assuming that > no great catastrophe befalls us. I think we should create a PDML time > capsule, and bury it on GFM. Or at least some of TV's wedding shots . . > . >
Well if technology keeps advancing like it is today, In the 37th century they'll be able to write everything that we know today onto some sort of optical crystal super media that you can carry in your pocket.
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-- George Jean Nathan
