Project Silica

From Jacquard's silk looms to NSA key tapes, how holes in cardboard ran the world for two centuries — and why we can still read them.

Quartz glass promises 10,000-year data storage, but can it scale before 180 zettabytes make it obsolete?

Physical paper from the 1700s is more durable than a Word doc from 1994. Here's why digital data is fragile and how archivists fight bit rot.

Will our digital legacy survive for billions of years? Explore the tech fighting the "Digital Dark Age," from lunar libraries to quartz glass.

Why is our fastest tech also the most forgetful? Herman and Corn dive into bit rot, LTO tape, and the quest for 1,000-year digital permanence.

Think CDs are dead? Discover why tech giants and hospitals are turning back to "digital stone carving" to save the world's most important data.