Recent experiments have achieved data storage in small wafers of quartz glass, 30TB, enough for the whole Bible in a wafer 1” x 1”.
“Hitachi says that data can be contained inside a piece of quartz that’s only two centimetres wide and two millimetres thick. The wafer contains multiple layers of binary-based dots inlaid with pulses of light. The information can be read in binary form with a basic optical microscope or laser-based reader scanner—hopefully those are still around in 100 million years. The quartz wafer is waterproof, weatherproof, can withstand 1,000 C degree flame, and will not erode in the slightest even after millions of years.”
It has been suggested that megalithic structures, which are usually made of stone containing quartz (granite or basalt) may have been used to contain data and possibly to send and receive data over distances around the Earth and inter-stellar distances. The pyramids would therefore contain huge quantities of data. The obelisks could be the antennas for data transfer.
https://brainstation.io/magazine/quartz-glass-wafer
Is this the future for us, just wafers of quartz glass instead of cds, flash drives, etc.?