So far, documents including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Magna Carta, the King James Bible – and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – have all been stored using the technology. In 2018, Elon Musk sent an etching of Isaac Asimov’s science fiction series Foundation into space aboard the Falcon Heavy rocket, while Microsoft has stored the entire 1978 Superman film in glass. The artist Mika Tajima has even stored “human emotion” data using this method – she collected and stored all the tweets posted in Japan in 2020.
“We use a process similar to what ancient people used – they made marks on stone with tools,” says Kazensky. “It’s a mechanical or physical change of material. So this kind of physical change or making holes in material is a very ancient way of securing information.”
Similar to DNA storage, one of the main caveats to storing data in this way is…
