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Humans' data-hoarding habit is becoming unmanageable: According to Context, we'll hit 175 zettabytes of data being stored by next year. Teams of biologists and computer scientists think they have a solution: Storing data in DNA. Here's how a team translated a photo of a dog into "nature's storage device."

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www.context.newsWe stored this dog photo in DNA | ContextWe’re creating so much data that soon we’ll be running out of space to store it. Can DNA help us shrink our data hoarding problem?

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Humans' data-hoarding?
Or capitalists' data-hoarding?
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@ArtPhotosDesk This technology has existed for years, but has serious drawbacks. It is very expensive and slow to write and read data to DNA with existing technology using silicon wells. Tape drives are very cheap.

DARPA funding of this technology is a cover for bioweapon development.