Re: New 3D business opportunity -- let's get rick quick!!

[P3D John W Roberts <roberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 07:43:12 -0500
>From: P3D Eric Goldstein  <egoldste@xxxxxx>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: New 3D business opportunity -- let's get rick quick!!

>John W Roberts wrote:

>> 100 years from now, somebody will take your CD-ROM of stereo images,
>> place it in their home neutral particle beam scanner, (snip)

>Except the lifespan of the CD-ROM is a fraction of that. Perhaps your
>futuristic science fiction scenareo includes a device to resurrect such
>media from the dead?  8-)

I can't really comment on that - the person in my group who performs
environmental tests on digital optical media would get mad. :-)

Regarding archival storage in general - most of the digital media
(including hard disks!) have a limited storage lifetime in part because
there hasn't been much of a market for billion-year storage. But it
could in principle be implemented, and if so, it would almost certainly be
in a digital format. And anyone worried about the loss of knowledge on
how to decode would be sure to include some equivalent of the Rosetta Stone.

This whole discussion of digital versus film has been pretty pointless -
the digital folks are talking about what's possible for the future, and
the film folks are talking about what's available right now.

The people who are really worried about making their Kodachrome images
last for centuries would probably do far better to scan them using
professional equipment, then store the digital data as dot patterns
on microfilm. (With as much ECC as they want, of course.)

Is LDS long-term storage still on microfilm, or are they considering other
media?

John R


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