On 24-Jan-10, at 11:26 AM, R.G. Keen wrote:
...
I’ll just blather a bit. The most durable data backup medium humans
have come up with was invented about 4000-6000 years ago. It’s
fired cuniform tablets as used in the Middle East. Perhaps one
could include stone carvings of Egyptian and/or Maya cultures in
that. ...
The modern computer era has nothing that even comes close. ...
And I can’t bet on a really archival data storage technology
becoming available. It may not get there in my lifetime.
A better digital archival medium may already exist:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/13/019202/Synthetic-Stone-
DVD-Claimed-To-Last-1000-Years
--Toby
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