Entirely agree with you about the current lack of longer term stable data storage options. That said, waiting the full duration of a material's projected life

Entirely agree with you about the current lack of longer term stable data storage options. That said, waiting the full duration of a material's projected life span before actual use of that material would limit options hugely, especially with the massively increasing corpus of generated data. In this sort of context (amount of data) one can spread your bets and use vellum, as well as other methods, until other more stable forms of storage are easily available. Interesting piece released yesterday related to long term data storage; a projected lifespan of 13.8 billion years doesn't sound too bad... University of Southampton - http://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2016/02/5d-data-storage-update.page http://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2016/02/5d-data-storage-up...