You could make new hardware, but realistically, it doesnt happen. The secrets get lost, the skills get lost, and the medium dies.
There is no chance that there is a working reader in a few thousand years time, let alone billions.
All that said, I agree that we need stable long term storage, my point is that billion year storage is just a fantasy spec. It looks good to investors, but doesnt hold up to reality.
Yeah, I don’t think billions of years is really a meaningful metric here. It’s more that it’s a stable medium where we could record things that will persist for an indefinite amount of time without degradation.
You could make new hardware, but realistically, it doesnt happen. The secrets get lost, the skills get lost, and the medium dies.
There is no chance that there is a working reader in a few thousand years time, let alone billions.
All that said, I agree that we need stable long term storage, my point is that billion year storage is just a fantasy spec. It looks good to investors, but doesnt hold up to reality.
Yeah, I don’t think billions of years is really a meaningful metric here. It’s more that it’s a stable medium where we could record things that will persist for an indefinite amount of time without degradation.