*That's an interesting storage medium, but I have to wonder if storing "data" is a good idea. Especially when you expect your eventual readership to be someb
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1310.2961v1.pdf
"If we want to preserve anything about the human race which can outlast the human race itself, we require a data storage medium designed to last for 1 million to 1 billion years. In this paper a medium is investigated consisting of tungsten encapsulated by silicon nitride which, according to elevated temperature tests, will last for well over the suggested time."
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"Musea are filled with art and most of the music and movies today are accessible through the internet, but for how long? At some point humanity as we know it will cease to exist [1] and slowly all our achievements will disappear. Given sufficient time, all memory of humanity will be erased.
"To ensure that knowledge about human life is available for many future generations or even future lifeforms we require a form of data storage suitable for storage at extreme timescales.
"There are of course some requirements for such a data storage system. The system should be able to survive for at least the required time without losing its content. The data should be easily decodable and the data carriers should be stored in locations likely to change little over 1 million years to ensure that the data carrier does not end up at the bottom of the ocean after a million years. It is also necessary of course to determine what data is relevant to store. All aspects of such a storage system are combined in a multidisciplinary project called "the human document project" [2].
"Although each of these aspects is of vital importance to ensure that the stored data will survive and is recognised as such, in this paper we will only focus on the fabrication of a data carrier which can survive for over one million years...."
