Every body needs storage space to keep their Data.
Goverments need miles of shelving, to store their DNA Data, plus Research, Chemical and Military information
America, uses over 500 miles of shelving, for information storage.
The UK and France use over 100 miles each.
But now some clever Chinese researchers from Hong Kong, after working for ten years on storage, problems, have recently overcome the practical problems, which had lent weight to sceptics, who previously saw their method of storage as Science Fiction.
Ten years later the Chinese have now learnt how to store the equivalent of hundreds of miles of DATA in a shoebox full of Bacteria, which they keep in a refrigerator.Wow, read that again.
This 'Science Fiction' method of storage has other advantages, they say. Since their Bacteria constantly reproduce, groups of single celled organisms could store Gigabytes of information for thousands of years.
They also state that their Bacteria storage method is immune to cyber hacking. (Eat your heart out Julian Assange)
****My Thoughts
This is Amazing stuff, but just how they are going to keep their reproducing Bacteria living, and prevent it from poisoning itself, could be a problem.
Should Robots and Bacteria started working together, in a Future World, what chance would we have?
Better let you digest these items, for yourselves.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technolog...145/story.html.http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20110109/tsc-hong-kong-researchers-store-data-in-c2ff8aa.html
