Technology

Good luck finding a reading device for it in 100y, let alone 14 billion years. I doubt there will be a human civilization a few thousand years from now. :)

Remember how humanity had problems understanding the meaning of ancient egypt hyroglyphs from just a few thousand years back until The Rosetta stone was found and some really clever and dedicated guy put an awful lot of work into the translation? Good luck with JPG images or pdf documents or even ASCII text.

It's OK to make fun of non-existing/ not yet market ready devices, no?

I need this for my Star Trek collection!

Every year or so some company comes along and announces some new storage technology that exponentially increases capacity or lifetime or both. Then nothing more is ever said about it and it never appears.

Denis Villeneuve nailed it years ago.

...but only one million years into it's life span the human race is gone and aliens are unwittingly melting them down for raw material.

"We are a technology licensing company"

This is good news from the point of view of being able to create devices that can read these crystals; as a comment on the linked site says:

The realistic lifetime of storage is the life of the last manufactured or surviving retrieval device.

It's amazing to see all the effort we all put in perfecting technology to long-term store our porn. 360TB? I'd like to order 2 please.

Meh…. Japan’s been pitching holographic data storage since the early 2Ks — at least —LMK when I can buy a magic holographic zip drive and I’ll be back.

Permanent storage. Like the Wayback massive and internet archive I hope will fully take advantage of these. As well as project Gutenberg. So much else. I've been waiting for something like this for a long time

All of this is useless because they can't be used to replace an ssd

"a 5-inch glass platter." Found the weak point...