Monday, 13 January 2014

Is DNA the key to saving digital data?

Are we sliding into a dark age of information? True, there are some three thousand billion billion bytes of recorded digital information on the planet, and the figure is rapidly rising.


However, most of this will be lost to future generations as we use ephemeral recording media and soon-to-be-obsolete storage devices, and rely on software whose business models depend on planned obsolescence and compulsory upgrades.

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