I have a special place in my heart for physical media technology. While Sony is moving to completely digital distribution and getting rid of all physical media – how are we supposed to avoid the upcoming Digital Dark Age we appear to be creating? How will our knowledge actually survive if civilization fails?

Perhaps with technology like this. SPhotonix claims to have developed glass storage ‘memory crystals’ that can store 360 terabytes into 5-inch glass disc by etching it with a femtosecond laser. They claim the storage could last 13 billion years – a claim that’s hard to prove since that’s roughly the age of the universe so far.

Seems to be a lot like the Cerabyte ceramic storage media.