I have an even better idea: manipulating growth rings of trees for message storage. If you want to store a 0, you cover the tree with a tarp for a year to stunt its growth. If you want to store a 1, you leave it uncovered. Bandwidth is 1bit/year.
1979 called, and they want their "Intel Magnetics 7110" one megabit bubble memory chips back. At the time, it seemed that bubble memory would supplant disk, tape, and even core memory (RAM to you). Maybe memristors will happen.
I have an even better idea: manipulating growth rings of trees for message storage. If you want to store a 0, you cover the tree with a tarp for a year to stunt its growth. If you want to store a 1, you leave it uncovered. Bandwidth is 1bit/year.
Reading the title, I immediately thought of Rabelais's "frozen words": https://www.classicalpursuits.com/where-words-unfreeze-the-t...
> The ice media can be preserved for a long time
lol I have some bad news
1979 called, and they want their "Intel Magnetics 7110" one megabit bubble memory chips back. At the time, it seemed that bubble memory would supplant disk, tape, and even core memory (RAM to you). Maybe memristors will happen.
Let's call it Amazon Glacier
New cold storage tier?
Minimal contract measured in literal ice ages.
Honey turn on the stove I have some files I need to delete.
Incredible abstract image.
The image at the top implies this involves time travel which would be necessary for the example of creating a bubble message in 1925 to read in 2025.
Is this article trying to milk an Ig Nobel Prize?
If so, they’re very talented at it
It’s neat but I can’t think of a worse storage medium.
This will be really useful after the nuclear winter.
Can't wait to use the AWS version of this.
Perhaps it will become their cheapest tier of Amazon Glacier?
[1] https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/glacier
How did they come up with this idea?
Probably inspired by the first Michael Bay Transformers movie.