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Is this glass square the long, long future of data storage?

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par Alex Fuerbach, Professor, Photonics Research Centre, Macquarie University

Scientists at Microsoft Research in the United States have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading information in ordinary pieces of glass which can store two million books’ worth of data in a thin, palm-sized square.

In a paper published today in Nature, the researchers say their tests suggest the data will be readable for more than 10,000 years.

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