storage and access platform

About the fact that the corporation microsoft works at this project, it became known because of the recently revealed patent, in which is described immortal depository of information and the system of access to it (Immortal information storage and access platform). Author â€“ Andrews Wilson (Wilsons Andy), colleague Microsoft.
In his work Wilson raised the problem, about which in essence think the historians and the philosophers â€“ as to preserve information and to transmit to its subsequent generations. Taking into account the fact that we survive the information boom, quantity of information, which is lost forever, enormously. And as yet there is no reliable method to preserve it not the fact that to the millenia, but also for the much smaller period of time. And the matter not only in the absence reliable disk, but still also in their rapid moral antiquating. Even if descendants do reveal in 1000 years untouched by time the disk blu-ray, will by simple riddle for them extract the stored on it information?

release the author sees in the creation of the physical artefact (physical artefact) on the basis of the computer system storage information, which would describe object (biological or inanimate) and his history. Such artefacts could be established as the part of memorial stone or urn, when the we are talking about , and monument or memorable board for the buildings and the construction.

The disk data, which is stored in the artefact, for the intelligible reasons must not include moving parts. This there can be flash- memory, plates from the long-lived material and so on. As a example is given the carrier of holographic means, created with the aid of burn-through bits on the diamond base layer.

Energy for the artefact it is planned to obtain from the external sources of power â€“ sunlight, sound waves, heat, magnetic induction and so further. In general, energy will be required in essence with the access of users (read â€“ descendants) to the data. Therefore the power source will be located in the composition of the device for reading information (User interface/reader), and the use of the methods enumerated above will make it possible to get power artefact to noncontact and avoid the problem of the wear of joints.

Man, who leaves after himself artefact, is right to limit access to it. For the identification of relatives, for example, it is possible to use the analysis DNA and other biometric methods.

Considerable attention developers give to the user interface and the possibility of its improvement in the future without a change of the system as a whole. Also is examined a question of the creation of keys, which would help descendants to restore the coded given in the case of loss codings (the same ASCII completely it can die). Instructions for the decoding it is planned to write on all basic languages.

Artefacts can be the part of the network â€“ local or global. Represent, to how obtain electronic letter from the artefact, left by your ancestor. Or to find in the prospector of man and, after being connected to the artefact, to learn its history from the first mouths.

It is necessary to note that this project is background development Of microsoft. However, is the fact that to this system obtained the patent (claim was given during June 2005), witch give the foundation for considering the intentions of company serious.

storage and access platform

STORAGE AND ACCESS PLATFORM