Storing in Stone

Ceramic Storage

Andrii Lowki Zvorygin

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February 4, 2010

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Overview

History of Ceramic Storage

What can we do now?
Interested Parties.
Future technologies.

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History Overview

Inscribed Pottery
Tablets and Runestones
Cave Art

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Inscribed Pottery

Oldest Pottery Inscription, the Greek Dipylon Jug 2000 years

old
Greek Coloring based on using different kinds of clay

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Tablets and Runestones
Clay Cuneiform, easy to produce with primitive tools, such as
clay and reed
Clay tablets, oldest recorded (official) human history at over
3,000 years old.
Cylinder Seals, useful for making many copies of a text
Stone Runes is a special alphabet that is easily etched into
stone

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Cave Art

Cave Art as old as 30,000 years have been found.

Painting rock with natural pigments.
Carved rocks and statuettes also found.

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What can we do now?

High Density Printing

Ceramic Archive Facilities
Interpreting Software
Cost Analysis
Longevity Analysis
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High Density Printing

Storage method also applicable for paper printing

Can use ceramic printer for long term quick high density
storage
Currently available resolution of 4800*1200 (5.76 million
points per inch) and 4 colors (2 bit)
1.44MB per inch (higher density with more colors or dpi)
207MB per square foot or 414.7MB double sided
56.7GB per square meter or 113.3GB double sided
126.7MB per 8x11inch page or 253.4MB double sided
1 full feature movie storable on 3 double sided A4 pages
Can be read with high precision scanner

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Interpreting Software

Formatting for printing: translates computer bytes (base 256)

to print pixels (base 4).

hello world

Compressed pure text blog 70KB

Once formatted for printing, can be used for ceramic or paper.
Scanning: identifying color of pixels
Formatting for computer: translates print pixels to computer
bytes.

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Ceramic Archive Facilities

Soft padded floors and furniture exteriors in case of droping or

bumping.
Padding between ceramic tiles, in case of earth movements.
Or can make ceramic tiles with one side dedicated to padding
structure.
Padding can be from carbohydrates (plastics) or softer rocks.
Can be hybrid with paper archive facilities, using paper as
padding. though paper might turn to dust after a few
thousand years.
Archives can be burried in internally padded stainless steel
metal box.

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Cost Analysis

An A4 8inch by 11inch page tile about $4.40, precoat $0.20,

ink cost $0.10, total 1 side 4.70, total double sided $5.00.
Ceramic printer cost $1500, so for first 100 A4 tiles $20 each,
for first 1000 A4 tiles $6.50 each.
Current hard drives at $50 per 500GB, $0.01 per 100MB, with
a half life of 6 years.
A paper copy shop can offer $0.07 per 100MB, so paper costs
less than magnetic drive for storage more than 70 years.
Ceramic tile currently costs less than paper for storage more
than 5,000 years.
In case of unpredictable weather or availability of copiers at
end of life, Ceramic tile is more dependanble.

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Longevity Analysis

This is a list of technologies and their proven life spans.

Flash drive 5 years
Magnetic disk 6 years
Optical disk 30 years
Acid-free paper 100 years
Alkaline paper 500 years
Burried ceramic stone tile 3000+ years
Ceramic or stone art stored in caves 15,000+ years

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Interested Parties

Government
Religion
Business
Families and Persons

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Government

Can have constitution and other nation founding documents

written in stone.
Legal systems can be stored for long term reference.
Various libraries of information can be stored for centuries or
millenia.

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Religion
Member lists and or contributions can be recorded.
Various good works for the community can be set in stone
and displayed.
Recordings of masses and ceremonies can be kept.
Icons or artwork can have a more long term appeal.
Perhaps encoding the relevant stories in the picture or it’s
borders.
If relatively low density and someone takes a picture, can get
the translated story.
Padded stainless box near a coffin can be a funerary
compliment ceramic archive containing persons life works.
Compiling information of a humans life into archive may have
service fee.
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Businesses

Can adopt decorative style of using tiles storing information

about company milestones.
Incentive for employees to be more happy about their
company.
Their achievements written in stone.
Can afford lower density, easier readability for employee or
group honorification.
More potential for long lasting company as bound to more
solid information.
Mission critical information, as well as information property
can be backed up in ceramic.

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Families and Persons

Can store family documents in a long term and reliable

manner.
Large amounts of high density data (videos, photo albums)
can be stored for long term for low cost.
Personal achievements and documents can be kept in stone
(diplomas, birth certificate, licences).
Can store information for self to retrieve in future incarnation.
Ceramic storage is water proof, fire proof, scratch resistant
and long lasting.

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Implementation Method

Can wean public onto printed storage

by distributing data image creation and reading software.
Data can be formatted for printing on paper or ceramic.
Data can be read from paper or ceramic using the same
scanners.
Ceramic printing an extension of current printing shops.
Easy migration for current print shop owners.

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Future Technologies

Higher Density Ink Printing

Long Lived Ceramic Printer
Semantic Compression
Geopolymer Ceramics
Technological Host Body

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Higher Density Ink Printing

if increase amount of colors printer uses

then more information per point
if increase how close together printed points are
then more points per area
achieving higher data densities

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Long Lived Ceramic Printer

Only requires clay, water and source of power.

Plate making component mixes water and clay and creates a
clay tile to imprint.
Printing component uses a pressing tool to make imprints in
the clay tile.
Pressing tool can be pin for binary, flat-head for cuneiform,
glyphs for typing.
Clay tile sent to firing component which turns clay tile into
ceramic tile.
Archivist component retrieves ceramic tile and stores in
archive.

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Semantic Compression

For large volumes of information can use compression.

Semantic compression is basically a human and computer
grokable text summary.
Can store snapshots or video clips of new information, along
with summaries of repeated information.
Compression and summaries can be AI generated.
Summaries may include statistics, number of objects, what
was the average value, and so on.
Semantic Summaries also far more useful to anyone reading it
later
Compare watching raw surveilance video to text summaries
with clips of highlights.
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Geopolymer Ceramics

Recently rediscovered ceramic creation process.

Low temperature firing (25C+) and stronger than ordinary
ceramics due to chemical reaction.
Can be made from readily available resources, clay, baking
soda and water.
Large amount of use in ancient history in massive long
standing strucutres such as the Pyramids and Tiahuanaco.
Can reduce cost per tile, and thereby increase cost effective
storage.
Easier to make a printer that also makes tiles from raw
materials.

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Technological Host Body

Imagine yourself incarnated into technology based host body.

Some memories you wish to store long term.
That you can read when using different hardware in
potentially another body.
Set in stone, your memories will last through many hosts.
Maintaining continuity and stability.

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Conclusion

Storing in Stone, Ceramic Storage is a viable long term

storage medium today.
May you be remembered in stone.
Abundance and Longevity.

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