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Digital data has the potential to remain completely stable for thousands of generations with constant copying to new hardware (lemmy.zip)
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In reality it is more complex but the possibility is there

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[โ€“] Waveform@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

There's always 5D Optical Data Storage, which might store data in glass for a long, long time. (It's not really 5D; it's composed of discrete nanostructures which have five attributes.) You would only have to write to a new disc every N billions of years.

[โ€“] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

That's actually pretty crazy