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20 Amazing Futuristic Technologies that will give you glimpse of our Lives In Next 30 Years

3. ‘5D’ Discs to store TBs of Data to eternity
Researchers have created a 5D disc that records data in 5 dimensions and lasts for billions of years. It can store 360 TB of data and even withstands upto 1000 degrees of temperatures.

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The files in the disc are made of three layers of nanoscale dots. The five dimensions of the disc refer to the dots’ size and orientation along with their position within three dimensions. When light passes through the disc these dots change the polarization of the light which is then read using a microscope and polarizer.

The Southampton team who were developing the disc, have managed to perfectly record the entirety of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Newton’s Opticks, Magna Carta and King James Bible. In the coming years the disc will cease to be an experiment and might become the norm of data storage.

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