Fossil knowledge

David Jones

Nature, 1998, vol. 396, issue 6708, 222-222

Abstract: How will societies of the future know how we lived in the 1990s? Magnetic and optical tapes and disks will have delaminated and embrittled; paper and film will have bleached and crumbled. To preserve such information, DREADCO chemists are trying to fossilize books, CDs and so on, by immersing them in pressurized carbonated or silicated water. Telling our descendants how to read these fossils may be more tricky.

Date: 1998
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