Besides the storage density, DNA storage has two more advantages. The first is longevity; DNA lasts for thousands of years (or even millions, if it’s trapped in amber). The second is future-proofing: Since DNA is the basis of all life, future societies will always have technologies available to read it (that assumes artificial intelligence doesn’t exterminate or replace human society, of course).
Thanks to @chrismillet for this link.
Source: Mashable
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daysbetweenstations said:
Have you checked out poet Christian Bok’s (umlaut over the o) Xenotext project wherein he’s attempting to encode a poem into a virus which will reproduce and thus change the poem infinitely as it reproduced?
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