Want to make sure a photograph survives your lifetime? Print it out. That's the warning Internet pioneer Vint Cerf gave at a talk recently, saying that vast amounts of digital information may soon be lost in a new digital "dark age."
According to a survey conducted for SanDisk, 64% of adults in the US wouldn't consider destroying their photo collections for $1 million. At the same time, the general public probably doesn't spend nearly enough time and money ensuring the safety of those same photos.
There's a good chance the digital photos you've stored on hard drives and DVDs won't outlive you, but what if there was a disc that could last forever? M-Disc, short for Millenial Disc, is a new type of disc that doesn't suffer from natural decay and degradation like existing disc technologies, allowing you to store data safely for somewhere between "1000 years" and "forever".