Holy Hannah!!!

[Megazeti]

New 'petabit-scale' optical disc can store as much information as 15,000 DVDs
https://www.livescience.com/technology/ ... 15000-dvds

[Tex]

Agent J “I guess I'm going to have to buy The White Album again."

[A-Caceres]

It reminds me of those tape drives that can store over 800TB of info per tape. I remembered this PBS show in the late 90s talking about this scientist trying to make a laser blue so they can make more storage in the discs, which it eventually became Blu-Ray. Really neat and scary on how much info can fit into such a small space.

[Lord Reith]

Imagine if you scratched it!

That's 5,000 hours gone...

[Megazeti]

"It's easy if you try"

[mojofilter]

I wonder how the research is going on a project I read about way last decade, where scientists were able to successfully store one bit of digital information in a light beam.

[quigatolah]

I remember reading in the 1970's when 12 inches of vinyl held 45 minutes of music that there would be computer chips the size of a postage stamp that would contain a whole album. Seemed far fetched at the time.

[sternla]

The first "Hard Drive" I used at work held 12 kilobytes.

[glami]

Crazy!

[Lord Reith]

And what will all this new technology be used for I wonder?

For advancing the state of the human race?

Or for - as is nearly always the case - for creating better weapons, deeper surveilance and bigger profits for a tiny priesthood of technical elites?

I suspect it will be the latter - again.