Microsoft develops ultra durable glass plates that can store several TBs of data for 10000 years

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Microsoft develops ultra durable glass plates that can store several TBs of data for 10000 years::Project Silica’s coaster-size glass plates can store unaltered data for thousands of years, creating sustainable storage for the world

Of all the stuff I’ve seen in sci fi movies and tv shows, I really didn’t think the computer chips on glowing transparent plates was gonna become reality. What a crazy world this is.
Optical communications, optical computers, optical storage.

optical computers

Why not yet?

It’s an active area of research. I guess you’d just say that they haven’t figured it out yet.
Optical computing - Wikipedia