Tuesday, August 09, 2011

[dvbamkqh] Quartz information storage

Inscribe information onto a piece of quartz (or more expensively, corundum) for extremely long-term durable information storage, perhaps encoded as very small QR codes.

Diamond is not a good material because it can be burnt.

One marketing possibility is an encoded digital photograph of a loved one etched onto quartz jewelry.

Another possibility is a person's entire life story written onto one or more crystals which are buried with the person after death.

Preserving the knowledge of decoding QR codes and JPEGs are left as an exercise.

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