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2 thoughts on “Hitachi: Data that Lives Forever is Possible”
How many lifetimes would one need to even scratch the surface of what they might have to say, let alone appreciate their messages?
Fundamentally, the most enduring message for humanity must be to stay humble, for even if we are the first ones here, we certainly won’t be the last, or the wisest to have lived.
As we refine our methods of storing huge amounts of data in quartz crystals, we may one day be very surprised to find that some civilization (from ancient Earth or from the stars) before us was way ahead of us in this technology, and that they left us more data than we could have imagined. You raise an excellent point about the depth of knowledge that might be contained within. The legends surrounding these artifacts suggest they hold not just historical information, but insights into our very purpose and destiny as a species.
How many lifetimes would one need to even scratch the surface of what they might have to say, let alone appreciate their messages?
Fundamentally, the most enduring message for humanity must be to stay humble, for even if we are the first ones here, we certainly won’t be the last, or the wisest to have lived.
As we refine our methods of storing huge amounts of data in quartz crystals, we may one day be very surprised to find that some civilization (from ancient Earth or from the stars) before us was way ahead of us in this technology, and that they left us more data than we could have imagined. You raise an excellent point about the depth of knowledge that might be contained within. The legends surrounding these artifacts suggest they hold not just historical information, but insights into our very purpose and destiny as a species.