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That's pretty cool, but we're already past a few generations of devices that were supposed to store data for decades and we no longer have computer with interfa
by agilob 2y ago
That's pretty cool, but we're already past a few generations of devices that were supposed to store data for decades and we no longer have computer with interfaces to use them. What are the chances that people will know what USB is in 50 years?
- stavros 2y agoWe need a thing where you apply 5V to and a LED flashes the data in it, one bit at a time.
- guappa 2y agoAnd a paper book to explain the encoding :D
- fsflover 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40414618 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40414618
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoI'd say USB has pretty good chances, because it's everywhere. It's already (checks wikipedia) 28 years old and AFAIK completely backwards compatible; I wouldn't be terribly surprised if in 50 years we're still actively using USB 9.0 or whatever and you can still plug in USB 1.x devices to then-current computers (possibly through adapter(s), if we ever manage to obsolete the Type A connector)
- agilob 2y ago29 years is still shorter than we used cd/dvd roms
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoCDs yes, but point of fact wikipedia says DVDs are actually (very slightly) younger than USB. Regardless, surely that's just more examples in favor of us being able to still read widely-deployed tech in 50 years? I'll grant that with the right materials, under the right conditions, optical media might well outlive this thing, but that 1. contains important caveats (plenty of optical media degrades within <5 years AIUI) and 2. doesn't invalidate the usefulness of this, just offers other options.