215 petabytes of data on a single gram of DNA

[GenesisGT]

Truly amazing, computers as we know them will probably be obsolete in the future, how soon, who knows. And when I see comments about the cost, 7K to synthesize and 2K to read, it is easy to remember how much a computer system with 32K memory cost in the eighties, easily around those same costs.

So in the future your DNA becomes your memory, and note they also saved the operating system to the DNA, so I would guess the need for any hardware is totally eliminated or substantially reduced.

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-short-movie-dna.html#nRlv

Cost still remains a barrier. The researchers spent $7,000 to synthesize the DNA they used to archive their 2 megabytes of data, and another $2,000 to read it.

[Jlabute]

That's why I backup my computer just by touching it with the tip of my finger :-) Plus I have lots of storage space left over.

[forum]

That's a ton of sex movies they could store.

Wow. Just think about that for a moment.

Wow.