Mind-bending post on the geological aspects of harddrives, 3D holograms, and some fantastical musings on the potential to turn the Earth into a giant data storage terrain.
Given the possibility of 3D holograms that allow storing 1TB of info on a single DVD: “The question, then, would be whether or not you could build a geotechnical version of this, some vast and slow-moving machine – manufactured by Komatsu – that moves over exposed faces of bedrock and “encodes” that geological formation with data. You would use it to inscribe information into the planet.”
