24 Jan 2007
Microsoft's Immortal Computing

Interesting idea, but I wonder if they aren't missing the whole import of taking out a patent on it? Seems kinda self-defeating, to me.

Microsoft is working on a project they call 'immortal computing' which would let people store digital information in durable physical artifacts and other forms to be preserved and revealed to future generations, and maybe even to future civilizations. The artifacts would be designed to make the process of accessing the information clear with instructions in multiple languages or hieroglyphics. In one possible use, messages for descendants or interactive holograms might be stored on tombstones. The project was revealed when their patent application recently became public.

(link) [Slashdot]

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