Good luck finding a nanofiche “reader” in a couple of thousand years :-)
People nowadays are struggling to find devices (and software drivers) to read old formats/mediums from a few decades back, imagine how difficult it’s going to be to find a working nanofiche device and support for it under Windows 9000 in the year 9000AD.
I like the idea, the nickel based storage medium, the improvements in capacity and all the other advantages listed, but I don’t like the proprietary technology.
>>>Good luck finding a nanofiche “reader” in a couple of thousand years :-)
A nanofice "reader" is literally just a microscope, isn't it?. Probably a very good microscope, which may or may not be difficult, given the technology of the time, but generally thought to be understandable. You'd store a bunch of this 'nanofiche' in a place, and have some diagrams/example documents with small text getting smaller and smaller and smaller, and the curious people/aliens would (hopefully) understand the idea, know enough about optics to magnify, and boom, they've got the data.
From the looks of the page, that would be a microscope. The digital format would be hard but if they are actual pages of text then its very possible, and the text could provide decoding instructions.
People nowadays are struggling to find devices (and software drivers) to read old formats/mediums from a few decades back, imagine how difficult it’s going to be to find a working nanofiche device and support for it under Windows 9000 in the year 9000AD.
I like the idea, the nickel based storage medium, the improvements in capacity and all the other advantages listed, but I don’t like the proprietary technology.