Comment on IBM has found a way to store data on a single atomparentComments−marcosdumay9yPush something other than carbon there and it will be much easier to read¹, without sacrificing any reasonable² amount of shelf life.1 - If you do it with a surface, there's commercial tech available for reading it. But you'll still have to develop the entire writing stack.2 - For a "my info is secure for N times longer than the Universe will take to get into heat death" you'll get a smaller N.
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Push something other than carbon there and it will be much easier to read¹, without sacrificing any reasonable² amount of shelf life.
1 - If you do it with a surface, there's commercial tech available for reading it. But you'll still have to develop the entire writing stack.
2 - For a "my info is secure for N times longer than the Universe will take to get into heat death" you'll get a smaller N.