{"id":231698,"date":"2026-02-20T05:25:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/is-this-glass-square-the-long-long-future-of-data-storage"},"modified":"2026-02-20T05:25:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:25:47","slug":"is-this-glass-square-the-long-long-future-of-data-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/is-this-glass-square-the-long-long-future-of-data-storage","title":{"rendered":"Is this glass square the long, long future of data storage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-this-glass-square-the-long-long-future-of-data-storage2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Microsoft Research in the United States have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading information in ordinary pieces of glass which can store two million books\u2019 worth of data in a thin, palm-sized square.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41586-025-10042-w\" target=\"_blank\">a paper published today in <i>Nature<\/i><\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-02-laser-etched-glass-years-microsoft.html\" target=\"_blank\">researchers say<\/a> their tests suggest the data will be readable for more than 10,000 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Microsoft Research in the United States have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading information in ordinary pieces of glass which can store two million books\u2019 worth of data in a thin, palm-sized square. In a paper published today in Nature, the researchers say their tests suggest the data will be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}