Why this theme…
…wasn’t on autoplay throughout the story eludes me completely.
Microsoft has teamed up with Warner Bros. to store a copy of the 1978 movie “Superman” on a small glass disc about the size of a coaster. The collaboration, which will be officially unveiled at Microsoft’s Ignite 2019 conference in Orlando, Florida Monday, is a first test case for a new storage technology that could eventually help safeguard Hollywood’s movies and TV shows, as well as many other forms of data, for centuries to come.
“Glass has a very, very long lifetime,” said Microsoft Research principal researcher Ant Rowstron in a recent conversation with Variety. “Thousands of years.”
Via Instapundit.
I mean, [expletive deleted]. They HAD this tech in the Superman movies (Hrm. I should watch the Donner Cut sometime)! You’d think that somebody would at least point that out in the story!
Sheesh.
Moe Lane
For data crystals I’d also accept the Babylon 5 theme.
> You’d think that somebody would at least point that out in the story!
No kidding! That was my *first* thought when I read about it. Only after that did I stop and note how cool it was that the tech had become real.