Holochrons and HAL 9000's memory

[Uwe]

Jet packs and flying cars have been flops in the mass-market, but 5-dimensional holographic memory is going to make a difference in the world.

http://www.orc.soton.ac.uk/962.html

The storage allows unprecedented properties including 360 TB/disc data capacity, thermal stability up to 1,000°C and virtually unlimited lifetime at room temperature (13.8 billion years at 190°C ) opening a new era of eternal data archiving. As a very stable and safe form of portable memory, the technology could be highly useful for organisations with big archives, such as national archives, museums and libraries, to preserve their information and records.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Potentially great news for archiving and being able to access data. Can these be used repeatedly though without harming the disc?

 

[Uwe]

Slow reply, nearly killed by the flu.

I'm speculating, but the photochemical process of DVD writing might be adapted to this and then you'd have RAM not just the ROM described thus far.

 

[Underseer]

Get better!