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Archiving music in glass

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The Great Advantage of Glass Is That It's Really Inert

Glass is incredibly resilient, and it doesn't suffer from things like bitrot. The technology we're using to read the glass is basically a microscope that can be printed on to platters. We are able to write about five terra bites in a square of glass. And once you've decoded them, you're going to have your digital files back.

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