A few years ago , scientist at the University of Southampton foretell the development of so - called5D"Superman memory " crystals : small nanostructured looking glass magnetic disc that , through laser - writing , could hold a mint more data for a good deal longer than other storage media . The squad has continued to improve on that engineering , and now cover that they can record a whopping 360 terabytes of data on the discs — all of which will fundamentally be immortal .
More on the dot , if prevent at way temperature , the platter will reportedlylast for 13.8 billion years . ( As a reminder , the universe is about 13.8 billion years old . ) The squad is deliver the applied science at the International Society for Optical Engineering Conference in San Francisco this workweek . accord to theabstracton the conference site , the information written on the discs can remain stable up to 1000 ° C ( 1832 ° F ) , and so far , a copy of the King James Bible and the Magna Carta have been successfully stash away . The authors write : " Even at elevate temperature of 160 ° coke , the extrapolated decay time of nanogratings is comparable with the age of the Universe—13.8 billion old age . "
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The full subject field has not yet been published , so there is presently no explanation regarding that fabulously long timetable , but the growth is notable news in a human race that ’s progressively reliant on digital datum storage .
In a printing press release , Professor Peter Kazanskyfrom the University of Southampton ’s Optoelectronics Research Centre read : " It is thrilling to think that we have create the technology to bear on document and information and store it in distance for succeeding generations . This technology can secure the last evidence of our culture : all we ’ve learnt will not be forget . "
Check out the fabrication process for these teeny flyspeck data fireball below .
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