When the Revelation of Saint John the Divine comes , the Svalbard islands of Norway might hold the only surviving vestiges of human civilisation . The Arctic archipelago is dwelling to theGlobal Seed Vault , an 11,000 - straight - animal foot secret repository ( go steady above ) that preserves century of K of ejaculate from all over the world in case of a ruinous plant extinction . Now , a new variety of vault has open up next door in a former ember mine that belongs to the Norse government , asGizmodoreports .
The Arctic World Archive is designed to declare datum , not seeds , put in historical and tender information onmicrographic filmcreated by Piql , a Norwegian preservation troupe . The film is then stored in a forcible box late in the bank vault , designed to be retrieved and read by anyone in the future , even if the original applied science used to learn and write the file ( say , a PDF ) is no longer in use . It ’s a highly secure program library design to keep certain document and data available for the foreseeable future , through whatever environmental disasters , cybersecurity attacks , or earth wars might fall in the next 500 to 1000 long time .
In one of itsbrochuresfor the archive , Piql argue that keep an analogue rendering of important documents in a remote spot is necessary in today ’s digital globe :
While the files can be take online , the strong-arm film can only be access by ordering it to be brought up from inside the vault . The microfilm can not be overwrite , so whatever was first record on it can not be manipulate by anyone who subsequently handles it .
The pace of technology movement at such a rapid clip that even data create a few decades ago might be mostly unreadable to the world — how do you recover data point from a floppy disc when no data processor have those drives any longer ? The idea here is that this micrographic cinema ( Piql representativesdescribeit like QR codes written on film ) will be capable to outlast the original engineering used to create the single file . It ’s the 21st century equivalent of carving rune onto Harlan Stone .
The Brazilian and Mexican government have already put transcript of their Old Ironsides and other historic interior documents — some dating back to the 16th C — in the archive .
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