Is science fiction about to become science fact? 🤔

“There’s been a lot of preliminary work demonstrating different aspects of a glass-based storage system. But in Wednesday’s issue of Nature, Microsoft Research announced Project Silica, a working demonstration of a system that can read and write data into small slabs of glass with a density of over a Gigabit per cubic millimeter.”

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https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/microsofts-new-10000-year-data-storage-medium-glass/

Microsoft's new 10,000-year data storage medium: glass

Femtosecond lasers etch data into a very stable medium.

Ars Technica
Glass Data Storage - Sealed in glass (Microsoft's Project Silica)