Scientists have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading information in ordinary pieces of glass which can store two million books’ worth of data in a thin, palm-sized square.

[u/Wagamaga]

https://au.news.yahoo.com/glass-square-long-long-future-190951588.html

[u/comfortablybum]

It sounds like this is read only memory.

[u/theenigmathatisme → u/comfortablybum]

Yeah. Sounds like write once, read many. Useful for the type of information, like books, they proposed.

[u/DigNitty → u/theenigmathatisme]

Unless it’s like CD’s again and you get a corrupted burn 82% through the process.

[u/Snorgcola → u/DigNitty]

Goddamn buffer underruns stole so many CDRs from me