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Researchers at European Bioinformatics Institute near
Cambridge, UK, have sketched workable plans to encode hard data onto
strands of human DNA, rather than use the magnetic tape or hard disks
used by computers. "[The system] should, think the researchers, be
easily capable of swallowing the roughly 3 zettabytes (a zettabyte is
one billion trillion or 10²¹ bytes) of digital data thought presently to
exist in the world and still have room for plenty more. It would
do so with a density of around 2.2 petabytes (10¹⁵) per gram; enough, in
other words, to fit all the world’s digital information into the back
of a lorry."
by Orion Jones
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