Researchers at the University of Southampton in the UK successfully stored the entirety of the human genome sequence onto an indestructible 5D optical memory crystal no bigger than a penny. The indestructibility claims are no joke since the discs can withstand temperatures up to 1,000°C, cosmic radiation, and even direct impact forces of 10 tons per cm2.
This isn’t a “this is your home PCs future storage” news. The read & write rates are probably abysmally slow and the intention here is for actual knowledge databases that may survive us as a species.
And fair enough but as it stands we’re going to lose a huge amount of data if we cant get “permanent” storage solved soon.
You mean… this guy might be on our horizons now?