“DNA could store all of the world’s data in one room”

“DNA could store all of the world’s data in one room” 2017-03-02T22:38:41-07:00

 

The very primitive Earth
The very early Earth — not obviously well suited to the creation of sophisticated archival systems
(Wikimedia Commons public domain)

 

Isn’t it really quite stunningly amazing that the most efficient data-storing medium known to us is DNA?

 

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/dna-could-store-all-worlds-data-one-room

 

Isn’t it astonishing that the supposedly unintelligent natural universe is so marvelously effective at archiving information?  Don’t you find that striking?  I certainly do.

 

 


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