Title:
Microsoft will archive music in futuristic glass shards that will live 10,000 years
Author:
Trinh
Published:
Green Foams, 12 June 2022
From the article:
* War, disease, division: things don’t look too rosy for humanity at the moment. But thanks to Microsoft, at least we’ll be listening to Stevie Wonder after the apocalypse. The tech giant has teamed up with the Elire Group to engrave the world’s music on glass plates and bury them on a remote arctic hillside to overcome the end of the world.
* While the seeds are packaged, the music is not. So if the goal is eternity, what is the best medium for the job? Your laptop or smartphone will not work. Hard drives last about five years before they start failing; the tape is good for no more than 10 years; and CDs and DVDs last 15 years.