OT: 1000 year DVD storage

On 21/03/13 00:06, Mouse wrote: While this is THE place where you can find people trying to get their hands on new hardware, the motives are because people here are hobbyists. There isn't much we can learn from old hardware that we don't already know. Sure, it's fascinating how they did things back in the day but rediscovering it won't progress humanity to any real degree. While I agree that there is simply no way of knowing what will be considered important, I think we can agree that information about technological advancements is likely to be more important than the pictures of your 5 year old son. Of course, through some twist of fate it, those pictures might give some insight on what it used to be like around here, propagating information about natural disasters and whatnot is probably more important. Bah, it might as well be that in just 50 years we advance in storage enough that we won't even have to consider this and everyone will be able to dump everything they want to store to some medium. In any case, this leads me to another point I was trying to make earlier. There is simply no need for storage that holds data for that long. 4.7GB is not a lot in the times we live in and the technology itself will most certainly be replaced be a cheaper alternative. If no one will need it in a 100 years, the chances are that it wasn't very important to use as a race and won't be needed in 200 and 300 and 1000 years. Again, if something happens to humanity where we lose most of the knowledge then any scrap of information will be useful (albeit photos of your dog will probably not be the most sought-after item in that scenario). I'm glad that the product is out there but there should be less push to try and make profit out of it and more push to advancing the technology itself. Marketing it under the aspect of being able to store (relatively) small amount of data for for omg1000yearsdropeverythingbuy50 just seems? bad. -- Mateusz K.