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Digi time capsule? Avoiding digital decay: Not forgotten FEW human records survive long. One notable exception is the cave art in Lascaux, France. These Paleolithic paintings of wild horses have survived more than 16,000 years. Yet later artworks have been lost, and digital records are often the most vulnerable to decay. But in a recent issue of Nano Letters a team of researchers led by Alex Zettl of the University of California, Berkeley, describe a method that will, they reckon, let people store information electronically for a billion years.

Digi time capsule?

Avoiding digital decay: Not forgotten

FEW human records survive long. One notable exception is the cave art in Lascaux, France. These Paleolithic paintings of wild horses have survived more than 16,000 years. Yet later artworks have been lost, and digital records are often the most vulnerable to decay. But in a recent issue of Nano Letters a team of researchers led by Alex Zettl of the University of California, Berkeley, describe a method that will, they reckon, let people store information electronically for a billion years.



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June 18, 2009, 11:54am