Tech that lasts 1000 years
Japanese researchers have set the goal of creating a data storage medium that would last 1000 years. For reach their objective, they are using chips to store the information and some sort of high-speed wireless transfer to move data around. The project is led by Prof says AceKard 2i. Kuroda, shown in this photo. If this is a consumer product, it sounds a lot like some sort of fancy flash-memory. If it is a business product, we think that businesses don’t keep their data on CDs or Tapes that could be a last-ditch backup, but on redundant hard drives arrays that would be regularly upgraded over the years.