LAST FOREVER: A woman holds up Hitachi's newly unveiled quartz glass plate technology, which can be used to hold data indefinitely. — AFP/Relaxnews 2012
As Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones prove, good music lasts a long time; now Japanese hi-tech giant Hitachi says it can last even longer — a few hundred million years at least.
The company unveiled a method of storing digital information on slivers of quartz glass that can endure extreme temperatures and hostile conditions without degrading, almost forever.
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