Who Was Asking About Storing Data?

[KG4CGC]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/26/hitachi-data-glass-one-hundred-million-years_n_1916825.html?ncid=webmail11

100 million years! Wow! 40MB p/sq. inch.

[NQ6U]

Woo-hoo! Millions of years from now, future archeologists will be able to watch terabytes of our stored German fetish porn and meaningless Tweets!

[N2NH]

The newest technology allows the use of 'wetware' to store massive amounts of information in extremely tiny spaces...


We recently reported (http://io9.com/5935415/why-dna-is-the-future-of-data-storage) on a breakthrough by Sriram Kosui and his team at Harvard and Johns Hopkins in which he devised a technique for archiving information in DNA. The process, which takes advantage of DNA's data sequencing attributes, could be used to store as much as one petabyte of data (one petabyte = 1,024 terabytes) in a volume of 1.5 mg of DNA. Because genetic information can be packaged in three dimensions, that equates to a storage volume of about one cubic millimeter — so you'll finally have a secure and ironic place to store your massive digital porn collection.

And DNA uses two pairs of data at 4 switches per pair. 4 X 4 = 16 which is Hexadecimal. No more binary.

That is the same as 0.000061 cubic inches (cu in - in³) or 61 micro cubic inches - and the average human being can produce much more than that in a day.

The NSFW Story is here. (https://forums.hamisland.net/showthread.php/23301-Fun-Things-to-do-with-Sp**m-%28NSFW%29?p=475947&viewfull=1#post475947)

Can't improve on what has already been created.

[n2ize]

The newest technology allows the use of 'wetware' to store massive amounts of information in extremely tiny spaces...



And DNA uses two pairs of data at 4 switches per pair. 4 X 4 = 16 which is Hexadecimal. No more binary.

That is the same as 0.000061 cubic inches (cu in - in³) or 61 micro cubic inches - and the average human being can produce much more than that in a day.

(https://forums.hamisland.net/showthread.php/23301-Fun-Things-to-do-with-Sp**m-%28NSFW%29?p=475947&viewfull=1#post475947)
We would still be using binary processing because your switches would still be 1 or 0, on or off. The difference is that you would have more switches per given area. or in the case of DNA, per given volume thus you can pack data Even using today's technology you can build a ternary or quaternary computing system. Mathematically it is perfectly feasible and computations are just as valid. The difficulty comes in the engineering aspects. there is a greater difficulty in resolving bits that can exist in 3, 4 or more states yielding a greater probability of error.

Nonetheless, data technology will be advancing further and further as time goes on. a decade or two ago I was still measuring storage space in terms of megabytes. Now I am looking at terabytes. A few decades ago I has a computer with a 20 Mb hard drive installed. Now my smallest directory is much larger than that. Now I have terabyte sized drives and gigabyte drives on my keychain containing an entire operating system, storage space, etc. Imagine what the future will bring.,

[KG4CGC]

The newest technology allows the use of 'wetware' to store massive amounts of information in extremely tiny spaces...



And DNA uses two pairs of data at 4 switches per pair. 4 X 4 = 16 which is Hexadecimal. No more binary.

That is the same as 0.000061 cubic inches (cu in - in³) or 61 micro cubic inches - and the average human being can produce much more than that in a day.

The NSFW Story is here. (https://forums.hamisland.net/showthread.php/23301-Fun-Things-to-do-with-Sp**m-%28NSFW%29?p=475947&viewfull=1#post475947)

Can't improve on what has already been created.

Yeah but, this is something you can carry in your pocket and take out in public.

[N2NH]

Yeah but, this is something you can carry in your pocket and take out in public.

I believe it resides a bit deeper than "in your pocket." If you can put this in cold storage, i.e. a bank where it lasts for decades, then I believe that it can be controlled. Besides, if we can synthesize other organic molecules, it's likely we can synthesize this too. It wouldn't be alive but it would be organic.

Besides, data storage isn't so much about size but how you use it.