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Quartz Glass Stores Data For Millions of Years

Written by Michael Awada on . Posted in Gadgets, Music, Technology

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Courtesy of Hitachi

“The volume of data being created every day is exploding, but in terms of keeping it for later generations, we haven’t necessarily improved since the days we inscribed things on stones. The possibility of losing information may actually have increased.” -Hitachi researcher Kazuyoshi Torii

To combat this problem, Hitachi is looking towards an unlikely source: slivers of quartz glass.