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Radio 4,3 mins

Are ceramic tiles the next big thing in data storage?

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Ancient literature and history has been passed down via stone tablets, but this method is now largely seen as a tool of the past. Martin Kunze, of the Memory of Mankind project in Austria, tells Helen Keen why ceramics could be the most reliable medium of recording essential data for the future. First broadcast on The Far Future, 2 January 2018.

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