Currently
still using tapes to record data, but the trouble with them is that they
deteriorate over time and become virtually useless after decades. For quartz comes to solve the problems.
Hitachi's people, working with researchers at Kyoto University have created a kind of storage unit semiperpetua from quartz, and it can preserve data for about 300 million years and that does not deteriorate over time as fast as the said tapes.
A single...
