First heard about Millenniata’s M-Arc archival DVD system when the Long Now blog mentioned that the product was actually shipping. Millenniata claims its M-Arc DVDs are backwards-compatible with existing DVD technologies, but rather than using a laser to heat up a photosensitive dye, the M-Arc uses a mechanical process to make scratches in a physical…
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Wow — I remember back in 2000 when the Long Now project first started talking about its Rosetta Disc project. The idea was to look at ways of preserve cultural information for very long periods of time. We’ve got more data than ever before, but how much of it is going to be preserved in…