Technology

At least give them to the nations which aren't currently trying to ignore and undo the last 100 years of medicine, physics, and biology. (Sorry, United States.)

The degradation of materials is pretty well understood. If it’s truly cut from a well known material with zero factors that could effect that degradation, it’s mostly safe to make en educated wish.

You can stimulate wear on different types of materials and get a general idea of how long it would last. This isn't plastic in a dvd.

I mean, people do predict things based on evidence. Galileo didn't actually go to outer space and verify that the earth was going around the sun.

If it's slow, then it's the central backup and you use anything else for regular use. Just having it as a fallback for recovery would be huge.

In case you missed it in the article, the transfer speeds are mentioned just two paragraphs prior to the one you cited:

Over the next three to four years, Kazansky said, SPhotonix aims to improve the data transfer speed of its technology from a write time of 4 megabytes per second (MBps) and read time of 30 MBps to a read/write speed of 500 MBps, which would be competitive with archival tape backup systems.

That's the joke. The speed of a lot of these tech would require twice the time the data retention to write it.

We can place atoms in order on the head of this pin and store 30 Pb. Write speed? 1KB/min

That’s cheap enough a small business could do long term backups for individuals and other small businesses.

As long as as humans haven't succumed to brainrot and still have capacity for math and logic, we can figure it out. It's encoded, not encrypted.

The classic problem of long-term nuclear waste warning messages is about conveying information over cultural barriers. This is a concrete data type, not interpretation of vague contexual meanings from pictograms. Math and logic don't change while cultures do. Images are far more retrievable than the meaning of an image.

Images would likely be the easiest possible thing to translate compared to more arbitrary codes since in that situation the output should be more easily decodable?

Also, there's plenty of easy solutions to that.

When a post is a link to an article, I would prefer that the post title match the article. Many news communities actually require that.

Skyrim Silica Crystal Edition

Tbh my own personal use case is getting buried with all of my data and become some kind of data-“Tollund man” in the year 4000, when they dig up my data cube and study it endlessly.

I expect them to build a reading device to do this; it’s the least I would expect if they want to study the holiday I was on in Bergen, or completely misunderstand the two hotdog pictures I happen to have as some kind of fellatio training device.

“Myes, we do believe family structures were loosely organised around the remote picture beaming devices that used to be called “te levision”