[neverdem]

There's a video at the source.

Nanoscale Reversible Mass Transport for Archival Memory

[Hoosier-Daddy]

“Better than Viagra”

[Gator113]

All that will still be missing is Obama’s birth certificate.

[Paladin2]

Bill Gates will find a way to make it unreadable within 10 years.

[GOP_Raider]

That embarrassing home movie of you naked in the tub could still be around millions of years from now, along with your less-than-eloquent posts on Facebook and Twitter.

Not to mention all of my less than eloquent posts on FR.

[Born Conservative]

Ping

[Star Traveler]

The data may be intact after a billion years, but the “language” and “syntax” of the data will be long-forgotten and the data will be incomprehensible to anyone later on... LOL...

Also, the “reader device” may not even be around any longer, either, not to say anything about the protocols for transferring the data to an intelligent device to “see” it...

[max americana]

and like all HD’s, there’s a chance it will crash. Let’s just all breathe a sigh of relief that Vista wont be around.

[GeronL]

But you will need the Windows version 22,500 with SP123 and its Carbon Media Player 99 to be able to get to that data

[GeronL]

reversible??

Carbon-RW?

[Lancey Howard]

Iron crystals?
Ahh. One electromagnetic pulse nuke would wreck that plan in a hurry.

[DoughtyOne]

What a great new medium. Isn’t it a shame what the guy’s first thought was when presented with this. The complete knowledge of man, and he’s focusing on ghastly home movies and twitter notes. Good grief!

[neverdem]

"Cell Phone Elbow": New Sign Of Times

Study Clarifies a Depression Risk

Calling All White Blood Cells

FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.

[Slump Tester]

Western Digital will come along and give even this media a bad name.

[dangerdoc]

bump

[SunkenCiv]

Well, I feel ten feet tall now. ;’)

Thanks neverdem.

[ShadowAce]

[martin_fierro]

I CAN HAZ IMMORTALITY?

[Still Thinking]

Microscopic iron crystals moving within carbon nanotubes could hold computer data permanently.

Unless we forget the encoding scheme or stop building the hardware to read it in, oh, say 30 years.

[antiRepublicrat]

Going to have to prepend universally-readable instructions on the file format and any codecs used. Saying “install this codec on Windows” is not going to work.

Now how to attach billion-year instructions telling them how to interface with the disk is another question.

People recently had problems getting images off of tapes from the mid 60s of lunar surveys. They had to dig up about the only remaining example of a tape reader and fix it up to read the tapes.

[US_MilitaryRules]

“”Nothing is permanent, though, he says. Such a device could fail for any number of reasons, says Spearing, some of which may be currently unknown.””

A strong magnet.