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One of the glass or diamond based storage technologies really needs to take off. What we're missing right now is something matching HDD/SSD in capacity but providing very long term endurance of the "it's been in a box in the attic for 50 years" type

CD-R was thought of that way, but wasn't really stable in the long term at a usable price point.

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Even in cases where the physical media survives, the issue remains of continued availability of working hardware to read the media.

This might get better in the future though. We seem to be reaching the end of technology's exponential growth phase (famous last words, I know). Perhaps the pace of change will slow and standards will start lasting longer as a result.

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