In two billion years
These are my notes from a toastmasters speech given on 7/22. The speech was on data storage, the tools that are used and the importance of in addition to storing your data properly the information that gives the data context should be stored as well.
Capture (immediate - 1 week)
Instapaper
writing it down
twitter
Take a photo
Memory stick
Short term storage (weeks - several years)
CD/DVD
Computer/External harddrive
Memory Stick
Web Services
Long Term storage (several years - billion years)
Internet
Nanotube
Oral tradition
Be careful of:
Technology depreciation
Quality of Data transferring
Not including information that describes the data
Data storing services and resources
Instapaper
Form Instapaper FAQ: Instapaper facilitates easy reading of long text content. We discover web content throughout the day, and sometimes, we don’t have time to read long articles right when we find them. Instapaper allows you to easily save them for later, when you do have time, so you don’t just forget about them or skim through them.
Twitter
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. While the service costs nothing to use, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees.
Nanotube Data Storage
The device has an iron nanoparticle positioned inside a hollow carbon nanotube. Carbon nanotubes are molecular-scale tubes usually made of a carbon allotrope. For data storage, a small electrical signal is applied across the nanotube causing the iron nanoparticle shuttle to move back and forth. The movement of the nanoparticles from one end to the other of the tube creates the binary ‘1′ or ‘0′ state
LongNow Foundation
The Long Now Foundation, established in 1996, is a private organization that seeks to become the seed of a very long-term cultural institution. It aims to provide a counterpoint to what it views as today’s “faster/cheaper” mindset and to promote “slower/better” thinking. The Long Now Foundation hopes to creatively foster responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years. To emphasize this horizon, the group writes years using five digits instead of four: 02009 instead of 2009.
Yucca mountain
Yucca Mountain is a mountain in Nevada approximately 80 miles north of the Las Vegas metropolitan area. It was the proposed site for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository from 1987 to 2009.
Oral tradition
Oral tradition, oral culture and oral lore are messages or testimony transmitted orally from one generation to another. The messages or testimony are verbally transmitted in speech or song and may take the form, for example, of folktales, sayings, ballads, songs, or chants. In this way, it is possible for a society to transmit oral history, oral literature, oral law and other knowledges across generations without a writing system.
Saved by tsunami folklore
In the aftermath of yet another earthquake in Indonesia, Anton Alifandi talks to islanders about how oral history helped them avoid mass casualties following the 2004 Asian tsunami.
Posted on Thursday, July 23, 2009 in Technology
