Re:Questions
by pbhjpbhj on Sunday September 30, 2018 @02:43PM
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I can pick up some writing on physical media -- an Akkadian clay tablet -- and read it (if I have the knowledge) despite it being thousands of years old.
Things like laserdiscs, I can probably still buy equipment to read, but it's substantially different as I need the technology to read it.
Microfiche is quite good in this respect, you can easily read it even without the specific tech it was made for (using a magnifier, or projecting the image with a simple light source.
I wonder if you could make a crystal where, like a hologram, you can rotate the crystal a minute amount in order to project a different page (an idea I saw decades ago had a digital clock style projection from a crystal, used asa sundial -- pretty sure it was theoretical).
That way the information is relatively easy to discover, and with a simple light source you can get info out if it.
Things like laserdiscs, I can probably still buy equipment to read, but it's substantially different as I need the technology to read it.
Microfiche is quite good in this respect, you can easily read it even without the specific tech it was made for (using a magnifier, or projecting the image with a simple light source.
I wonder if you could make a crystal where, like a hologram, you can rotate the crystal a minute amount in order to project a different page (an idea I saw decades ago had a digital clock style projection from a crystal, used asa sundial -- pretty sure it was theoretical).
That way the information is relatively easy to discover, and with a simple light source you can get info out if it.