Microsoft's plan to store data for 10,000 years 

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2000: deleting your watch history 3000: scattering your watch history

Then use that glass to make Windows.

*Glass breaks* Microsoft : *Pikachu Face*

10000 years later: ancient astronaut theorists say yes!

that is A M A Z I N G the idea that glass can be used to store data could not have crossed my mind in a thousand years

I would literally donate my left testicle to be one of the people working on transferring these files over. Media transfer and data storage is a love of mine, and tho I do it primarily for personal purposes, this would be a perfect fit. I would take utmost care in this job, mostly because my love of various mediums and my desire for data preservation. Hearing about a data storage medium that can survive for thousands of years without no data corruption makes me giddy like a schoolboy.

Millions of gigs on small piece of glass Cat: Don't need this*smack*

10 thousand years later: "what is this?" "looks like some ancient records"? "How do we read them"? "Don't know, they forgot to make devices that last as long as the records"

I read the title as “Microsoft’s plan to store *your* data for 10,000 years”

Remember that famous quote: "Glass is glass & glass breaks"

500 thousand years later..... Historians: mmmm Hentai a culture that we respect.

"Scratches at level 6 with deeper grooves at level 7"

"It can't be destroyed." "Hey guys this is the hydraulic press channel!"

2:33 “The Superman movie was chosen to pioneer this technology because Microsoft will soon be testing the possibility of storing PEOPLE in glass like general Zod in the phantom zone”

10,000 years later, an advanced civilization plays the data: "🎵🎵🎵We're no strangers to loooove"

Fire: can't destroy the film. Water: can't destroy the film. Gravity: *_enters chat_*

Microsoft: That technology can store data for 10,000 yea--- Me: **drops it** Microsoft: ....

How many thought the reason why they started with Superman: the Movie was because Kryptonians stored their data in crystals?

Earthquake: *I’m boutta end this mans whole career*

"to make sure that this content is available for generations to come" means old content (like Superman 1978 or Wizard of Oz) being still copyrighted in 10000 years. Cool.

Microsoft: Glass storage is the future for keeping the files longer safely. Meanwhile me: Yanks the pendrive out of the usb port without safely ejecting it.

I woke up in a cold sweat worrying that my browser history wasn’t going to outlive me by 10,000 years, but thankfully I watched this video and I feel much better.

Jerryrigseverything: Glass is glass, and glass will break.

When Microsoft tries to develop technology based on real parts of windows.

I’d love this for family photos. It’s a serious issue for many people with only digital copies. I fear one day some tiny corrupt bit will wipeout 10 years of my photos.

Elon Musk: Lets send 10TB of Anime to space for aliens for 10,000 years

2030: SAMSUNG GLASSDRIVE 3030 EVO 9000TB - $20

Glass storage Zack: Glass is glass, and glass breaks. Scratches at a level 6, with deeper grooves at a level 7.

Teacher: Where is your homework Me: My cat knocked it out of the shelf.

"Look through that window" "What a beautiful yard you've got for your home!" "That is my library"

To be of use to a caveman 20,000 years in the future, storage must include its own robust and durable built in playback and display mechanism.

Don’t forget to construct a building that can last 10000 years😂🙄

"store data in dna" THAT HOW THE FORERUNNERS CREATED MASTER CHIEF

Scientists: Forget the sum knowledge of the human race... let's store the Superman movie lol

10000 years ago: -Lets store some information, papyrus will do.

This remind me of Minority Report scene....

I saw Satya Nadella announce this at Microsoft Ignite 2019, and I was very excited about the possibilities of using this as archive storage! LTO tape is currently the standard for long-term backup, but even LTO has a shelf life.

Superman crystals.

So our descendants can enjoy all the cat videos too!

So gather all the available medical, science, history, movies, books, photos, blueprints, languages, maps, ect. and duplicate it on all the continents. As well, store the data on several heavily insulated satellites at the L2 Lagrange Point. They could bring them back with timed returns if we lost the ability to communicate with them. History has been lost with so many ancient civilizations already. It would crazy to restart if the worlds information was lost to war, solar flairs, meteor impacts ect.

HOWEVER the reader has DRM in it you need to pay for each year, which turns out so unpopular the DRM servers die after 2 years. Welcome to software as a service!!!

What’s interesting is no one is surprised you can do this. Imagine telling someone 200 years ago you can store moving picture and sound in a piece of glass

Glass is actually a fluid and flows. This is why old glass warps. I doubt it is the best means for storage. I like the microscopy etching though, very similar to two photon electron microscopy used in neuroscience.

How CDs should have been made from the start... Microsoft is amazing, no wonder they are big on enterprise 🙌🏿👌🏿🔥

Humans: so many real, terrible problems Humans: we can’t lose these tv shows

Re: DNA storage. There's actually this neat experiment I read about years ago about how they converted a simple song to a DNA sequence, had the organisms multiply, then generations down the line they were able to extract the song from the DNA again. Pretty cool.

Probably 5 to 10 years this technology or its derivatives will become standard consumer technology most likely replacing Blu-ray if they can increase the write speed to at least a 100MB/s

I would have thought they chose Superman because of the crystals in his fortress of solitude closely resembling this technology...

It’s essentially a Star Trek micro-tape.

"We take incredibly seriously." Sound like something that is life and death.

Soon Bring it out for commercial sale.. at low cost 😁 and Max read , max write speed.. Mostly redundancy.. and Safety..

Some cave paintings have lasted longer than ten thousand years.

Will mechanical hard drives ever be made out of glass to keep data that long?

I wonder if it scratches at level 6 with deeper grooves at level 7

Except glass is a liquid and it could distort the data over a long period of time???

because when we are recovering from the next ice age, WB will want its royalties.

But the next civilization who will find our ruins will think this is just regular glass

Hitachi has had this for some years, called “Fused Silicon”. What makes microsofts solution different/better?

Soon we’ll be able to store AI in glass stones with solid hologram body and make Crystal Gems waifus!

Right now: behold my secret room with tons of films 🎥 20 years later: hold my glass chip containing 700,000 films

the amount of people in the comments not understanding that this form of storage isn't meant for consumers

So, how fast it's writing/reading now?

Scratches start at level 6 with deeper grooves at level 7

Not true. Glass actually is not solid. If you look at older windows the bottom of the window is thicker than the top. Gravity is pulling the glass down and morphing its structure. Therefore information on glass would not last but for a hundred or 2 years. If that.

Glass is glass, and glass breaks...

They are right. Finally Microsoft is doing something good. Let's just not put Windows 10 on it.

I need a home version of this to store my Plex library :)

the 'data cube' shown in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy is closer and closer

Looks like isolinear chips from Star Trek. Star Trek predicting the future again 😂

Store 2 girls 1 cup for 10 000 years... Aliens... Yup I guess they didn't learn with Rome fall..

100 years ago the film industry intentionally destroyed their libraries of silent films, considering them a worthless waste of space when sound films became possible. It certainly represents how far western society in particular has come, from one of ignorance and inability to foresee how we can learn from history, to one where we appreciate all that has come before us, and respectfully wish to preserve that for the benefit of generations to come.

You can store windows OS on a glass window ,but can you store macOS on an apple? or a LinuxOS on a penguin ??.

When can we put memes on it?

I hope they don't store Emoji movie. The people in future will make it meme about us if it happens

So these are the people trying to solve the problem Linus was freaking out about.

Starting to look like isolinear chips... (Star Trek)... cool stuff

JerryRig : glass is glass and glass can break.

The world will end before 10000 years pass. Heck, even before 1000

*I USED THE WINDOWS TO MAKE THE WINDOWS*

I just hope they don't store warcraft 3 reforged. the people of the future could live without it lol.

Looks to be write only, which is good :) yet bad depending on application, but for long term storage of things like movies, or software ISO images, it would be amazing. Also choosing superman seems appropriate given that in the superman moves and shows, the kryptonians store information in crystals

So this is how we get Holicrons

Don’t let mark zuckerberg get a hold of this technology

Its pretty interesting how often we use Lithography in today's technology

Isolinear chips are finally here =)

Isn't that basically cd just more storage or something

This is some future tech that I would have never thought of seeing. Way to go Microsoft!

Now we can dig up crystals and see if anybody else thought of this.

Microsoft Windo... oh, wait.

Very cool but when I think something lasting forever I’m thinking literally any material that can’t shatter?

What they dont Realize is, "Glass is Glass, and Glass scratches at level 6, with deeper grooves at level 7".

We should archive entirety of human knowledge in a vault somewhere, in case of a civilization collapse. Instructions on how to read the data can be given the same way it was done with Voyager Golden Record, except it would be much easier, since we can make some assumptions about those future humans and how they would interpret the instructions.

The people: *they last for 10K years* Me: *glass don’t last that much*

Linus reviews this..drops it..all data gone

"Once its written its going to stay there for 150,000- 10,000 years." That's definitely the guy I want to trust with my data

microsoft should work on a functional updater or no software decay

I seem to remember reading somewhere in the early 2000's that IBM was working on a "holographic" storage medium, similar to this whereby a cube of what appeared to be glass was written onto by lasers and could store massive amounts of information in a small physical footprint. This looks impressive for read-only long-term data storage. On the other hand, I also think back to Britan's Domesday Project from 1986 and in less than 20 years the information on the specifically created discs readable only through specifically created machines were almost lost forever due to their very uniqueness and rarity. If this method of long-term data storage wants to get anywhere close to 10,000 years of viability, it first needs to become a widespread standard and popular enough to be easily copied, shared, supported, and convertible to whatever newer standards should arrive on the scene in 25 to 200 years. In 500 years laser-read glass plates could easily disappear and people use re-writeable synthetic nano-machine DNA clusters to store their digital lives on, accessable via an architecture and protocol we could barely imagine now. But hey, its a start!

Could this be on the upcoming Xbox One Series X? 🤔

Interesting It's like DR. STONE anime. I recommend you to watch it.