RSS Feed
May 25th, 2017 
Awake Goy
Microsoft Has a Plan to Add DNA Data Storage to Its Cloud
May 25th, 2017
This will probably be viable when you can hook up a Mr. Fusion to your Tesla, but it’s an interesting read anyway.
Via: MIT Technology Review:
The plans signal how seriously some tech companies are taking the seemingly strange idea of saving videos, photos, or valuable documents in the same molecule our genes are made of. The reason, says Victor Zhirnov, chief scientist of the Semiconductor Research Corporation, is that efforts to shrink computer memory are hitting physical limits, but DNA can store data at incredible densities.
Formatted in DNA, every movie ever made would fit inside a volume smaller than a sugar cube.
“DNA is the densest known storage medium in the universe, just based on the laws of physics. That is the reason why people are looking into this,� says Zhirnov. “And the problem we are solving is the exponential growth of stored information.�
<!–
–>
<!– AD CAN GO HERE
END: AD CAN GO HERE –>
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Source Article from http://www.cryptogon.com/?p=51009
Posted in 
Tags: 
