http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087 ... 88120.html
In the latest effort to contend with exploding quantities of digital data, researchers encoded an entire book into the genetic molecules of DNA, the basic building block of life, and then accurately read back the text.
The experiment, reported Thursday in the journal Science, may point a way toward eventual data-storage devices with vastly more capacity for their size than today's computer chips and drives.
"A device the size of your thumb could store as much information as the whole Internet," said Harvard University molecular geneticist George Church, the project's senior researcher.
(1) Future game-changer for disseminating information clandestinely.
(2) f*ck! I lost all my data. It was stored in a device the size of... a 100 DNA molecules! KHAAAAAAN!!
(3) In 50 years, I will be able to tap into all the codified knowledge of humanity by slightly twitching my head to the side while tugging the hairs of my left armpit.
