>It will make a nice archival solution for businesses and governments who want a data preservation solution over a time horizon of decades to centuries, though.

>It will make a nice archival solution for businesses and governments who want a data preservation solution over a time horizon of decades to centuries, though. I doubt it. Even governments and businesses suck at preservation: just look at game studios who loose source code of valuable IP they themselves developed 20+ years ago. People working there just don't care about something so long term when their own skin isn't in the game and they're not getting paid enough for it to care much about what happens when they're gone or what their predecessors did. This isn't the famous Voyager space probe where people hang around well past their retirement date to keep something alive due to emotional attachment, in most cases digital data just is left to rot and die out as people leave companies/institutions and new people come in with different agendas and career goals. Microsoft's magic Tesseract data storage cube is cool, but good luck finding the tech to read it 10k years from now when Microsoft is long gone. Written paper and cave drawings will outlive us all.