Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/04/25/the-case-for-storing-digital-d.html
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I saw a movie about this…
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interesting alternative to cloud storage of photos and videos. Encode them in DNA of a virus and infect all your friends and family!
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So it’s not that we’re living in a computer simulation, we’re all just some god’s porn collection 
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I can imagine when the digital data stored on DNA crosses over and becomes alive. And I will call it FRANKENDATA!!!
Storing data in DNA is a fascinating idea but it will not be practical or economic for decades. For a detailed analysis of the prospects by someone whose funding does not depend upon hyping the technology see DNA’s Niche In The Storage Market.
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The problem is reading the data. If it takes a day or two to get your data, it’s not going be very popular.
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Maybe for backups and archives. Maybe. The data density is interesting, but adding a, for lack of a better word, biological level seems a bit unwieldy and will come with its own set of additional problems.
BTW, still waiting for that holographic storage memory which was supposed to solve all our problems.
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Sure, let’s use a molecule with a demonstrated tendency to mutate when read or copied as a digital data storage solution. What could possibly go wrong?
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