College freshman Dexter Greene and Microsoft research manager Richard Black discuss how technology that stores data in glass is supporting students as they expand earlier efforts to communicate what it means to be human to extraterrestrials.Learn more:* Avenues: The World School — Golden Record 2.0 (https://research.avenues.org/goldenrecord/)* Project homepage* Golden Record: Overview (https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/voyager-golden-record-overview/)* NASA Science* Project Silica (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-silica/)* Project homepage* Sealed in glass (https://unlocked.microsoft.com/sealed-in-glass/)* Microsoft Unlocked innovation story, 2023* Optics for the cloud: storage in the zettabyte era with Dr. Ant Rowstron and Mark Russinovich (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/podcast/optics-for-the-cloud-storage-in-the-zettabyte-era-with-dr-ant-rowstron-and-mark-russinovich/)* Microsoft Research Podcast, November 2019* Project Silica proof of concept stores Warner Bros. ‘Superman’ movie on quartz glass (https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/innovation/ignite-project-silica-superman)* Microsoft Source blog, November 2019