In 1814, a quote from Jane Austen's Mansfield Park "When one reason for happiness runs out, a man looks for another" was printed using a revolutionary steam printer at that time, capable of printing text on more than a thousand sheets of paper per hour.
At the beginning of the 2000s, the novel migrated to the Internet. Now he and other works by Jane Austen can be read online. But this year, at least one more very specific information carrier has appeared.
Experts from the University of Texas have coded a quote from the famous book into a plastic molecule . The authors of the experiment hope that their development will help create a new type of data warehouse.
Storing archives has always been a problem, even if you follow all the precautions and be extremely careful. The most closely guarded original copies of Mansfield Park are aging. The ink fade gradually, the paper turns yellow and becomes "wrinkled".
Humanity now generates much more information than ever before in history ( according to current estimates , at least 1.145 trillion megabytes of data per day). If you try to download all this mass, then with current Internet speeds it will take almost two billion years to download all the information.
Most of the currently existing data centers responsible for storing information are equipped with hard drives. And despite the never-ending evolution of software and hardware in computers, media remains the cornerstone of progress.
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