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'Insane' amounts of data spurs new storage tech
Storing information with holograms and in glass is being proposed to deal with a deluge of data.
Mr Crawford is chief information officer at the museum, and oversees a project to digitise its huge collection of pictures, audio and film. The amount of data needed for such long-term storage is growing all the time, as the latest scanners can record documents and films in great detail. In a former wallpaper factory in Chiswick, west London, a start-up firm has been developing a long-term storage system that uses lasers to burn tiny holograms into a light-sensitive polymer.
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