Media Evolution
Information’s lifetime typically trades off against density.
Sumerian pictographs, ~3000 BC.
Chinese bronze inscription, ~800 BC.
Heracles Papyrus, ~300 BC.
Magna Carta, 1215 AD.
Information’s lifetime typically trades off against density.
Sumerian pictographs, ~3000 BC.
Chinese bronze inscription, ~800 BC.
Heracles Papyrus, ~300 BC.
Magna Carta, 1215 AD.
M-DISC is an archival-quality storage solution that preserves photos, videos, music, and documents for 1,000 years or more.
How do we verify the lifespan of a “permanent” medium?
Expose them to harsh conditions like
A US Defense study was favorable for M-Discs.
The French study found only Syylex discs survived the test cycle.
Syylex prepared archival DVD discs in a special facility.
They operated from 2010 to 2015.
“NASA admitted in 2006 that no one could find the original video recordings of the July 20, 1969, landing… …they were part of a batch of 200,000 tapes that were degaussed – magnetically erased – and re-used to save money.”
“We should have had a historian running around saying ‘I don’t care if you are ever going to use them – we are going to keep them’,” he said.
They found good copies in the archives of CBS news and some recordings called kinescopes found in film vaults at Johnson Space Center.
The simplest documents are “plain text” in ASCII format:
(An easier to read table is available here).
Linear A is a writing system that was used by the Minoans of Crete from 1800 to 1450 BC to write the hypothesized Minoan language or languages. Linear A was the primary script used in palace and religious writings of the Minoan civilization… No texts in Linear A have yet been deciphered.
Natural languages are not designed to be easily deciphered.
