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Society of American Archivist Research Abstract

By Bruce April 30, 2026UncategorizedNo Comments

The "Migration Trap" defines modern data storage: every current digital format requires constant, expensive transfer to new hardware to survive even a single decade. By 2026, institutions will spend $877 billion annually on resource-heavy data centers (splunk.com). This centralized, high-energy model is unsustainable across centuries, let alone millennia, as even the most stable institutions such as Kodak eventually fade. NanoFiche™,…

3rd NanoFiche landing on Lifeship integrated on Firefly’s Blue Ghost

By Bruce March 2, 2025Uncategorized

Next time when you look up at the moon, at the right side there is a crater known as the Mare Crisium. On March 2nd 2025, a payload cleverly designed by LifeShip in the shape of a mini-pyramid containing art collections nano inscribed on nickel plates landed softly into that crater and will stay there permanently as one of the…

NanoFiche Lands on the Moon again on Intuitive Machines Odysseus

By Bruce February 22, 2024Uncategorized

On February 22, 2024, The NanoFiche Deck made of 16 layers of nickel including the cover sheet riding on the surface of Intuitive Machine's Odysseus lunar lander touched down on the moon. The Intuitive Machines IM-1 mission made their historic lunar landing as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (“CLPS”) initiative. This is the first time the US has…

He’s the ‘NanoTech version of Gutenberg’

By Bruce May 20, 2021News, Uncategorized, Updates

By: Velvet Spicer, Rochester Business Journal, May 20, 2021 As a young child, Bruce Ha looked up at the moon and thought, how do we get there? Next month, a 30 million page library of Earth’s cultures, customs, languages and memories — using a technology Ha invented — will be aboard Spacex, headed to the moon. It’s a heavy feeling,…