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

Microsoft's Project Silica aims to show that glass is the future of long-term data storage. To prove its usefulness outside the lab, Microsoft partnered with Warner Bros. to write the 1978 Superman film into glass with lasers. To see the whole process and the Superman glass, we visited Microsoft's Research Lab in Cambridge, England and Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California.

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[JesseOrrall]

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[jfpost]

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

[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"

[mrdingles]

Millions of gigs on small piece of glass

Cat: Don't need this*smack*

[logan]

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

[shuvospeaking]

Remember that famous quote:

"Glass is glass & glass breaks"

[apoorvh]

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

[chicken]

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

[gavin]

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

[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”

[connormcgowan]

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.

[jhonlev]

500 thousand years


Historians: mmmm Hentai a culture that we respect.

[josh_]

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

[ninjanerdstudent]

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

[b]

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

[Andrew-igsp]

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.

[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.

[davidkoch]

"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.

[kamranbashir]

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

[aftab]

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.