…allowing data to be preserved for billions of years. Pretty science fictioney.
This would be a boon for cryonicists, who have been looking for years for a persistent way of maintaining their personal records.
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And the readers for the crystals will only last five years.
Hopefully this means that, unlike VHS, CD, LD, DVD and eventually Blueray that the media I purchase stored on this material won’t have to be re-purchased all over again in 10 years due to “laser rot”?
Billions of years, or until the cat knocks them onto the floor and they get stepped on.
Billions of years? Eventually it may be possible to store a total description of a body-state down to the molecular level.
Then Trump-like egomaniacs can revive themselves for the next umpity-billion years, every time an embodiment dies for some reason (presumably, not from ‘natural’ causes starting at some point within the next few centuries).
And, of course, there could be multiple copies in parallel once the data is spread around the galaxy.
Science-fictiony? Yep.