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Good luck finding a nanofiche “reader” in a couple of thousand years :-) People nowadays are struggling to find devices (and software drivers) to read old form
by NKosmatos 3y ago
Good luck finding a nanofiche “reader” in a couple of thousand years :-)
People nowadays are struggling to find devices (and software drivers) to read old formats/mediums from a few decades back, imagine how difficult it’s going to be to find a working nanofiche device and support for it under Windows 9000 in the year 9000AD.
I like the idea, the nickel based storage medium, the improvements in capacity and all the other advantages listed, but I don’t like the proprietary technology.
- patmcc 3y ago>>>Good luck finding a nanofiche “reader” in a couple of thousand years :-) A nanofice "reader" is literally just a microscope, isn't it?. Probably a very good microscope, which may or may not be difficult, given the technology of the time, but generally thought to be understandable. You'd store a bunch of this 'nanofiche' in a place, and have some diagrams/example documents with small text getting smaller and smaller and smaller, and the curious people/aliens would (hopefully) understand the idea, know enough about optics to magnify, and boom, they've got the data.
- ta93754829 3y agoi love this idea of storing a trail of smaller and smaller data, almost forcing them to invent microscopes to keep reading...
- crooked-v 3y ago"Hurry up with that new microscope! I need to find out what happens to Frodo!"
- genewitch 3y agoFrylock, don't touch my computer
- flavius29663 3y agowhy force them, when you can teach them? Lay the basics of geometry, optics, glass etc. is human readable format, with ever smaller fonts.
- desmond373 3y agoFrom the looks of the page, that would be a microscope. The digital format would be hard but if they are actual pages of text then its very possible, and the text could provide decoding instructions.