Data that might last thousands of years · Proposed air date:
The interview turns from contemporary drive failures to the deeper problem of keeping digital records readable after media and devices age. Williams says memristor storage might last centuries or thousands of years, then explains its synapse-like behavior and potential for analog learning systems; even Evil Steve's Terminator joke becomes a serious exchange about designing safeguards into future machines.
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