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It's super slow, hard to read, easily corruptible, and expensive. Literally the only advantage is storage density. But we live in a world where giant companies
by onychomys 8y ago
It's super slow, hard to read, easily corruptible, and expensive. Literally the only advantage is storage density. But we live in a world where giant companies build immense data centers in places nobody cares about, like Nevada. So I'm not sure if anybody is actually worried about storage density.
- i_am_nomad 8y agoCan we maybe cut the coastal snobbery just a bit? Plenty of people care about Nevada, specifically, Nevadans. (Not sure that’s the correct demonym.)
- choward 8y agoThanks. It is the correct demonym. Just because there is a lot of unused land doesn't mean nobody cares.
- PyroLagus 8y agoIt maybe easily corruptible, but it's super easy to copy. Nature has already solved that part for us already. If you can just have some bacteria make a million copies of your data, it doesn't matter if even several thousands of the strands become corrupted. But of course, unless you can actually read several hundred thousand strands in a reasonable amount of time, that redundancy doesn't help too much. I wonder if we could engineer bacteria to facilitate reading and writing to DNA in a more efficient manner.
- MauranKilom 8y agoLet's not forget one church building archiving the internet several times over.