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DNA allows both very dense storage of data, and it doesn't deteriorate as quickly as other digital methods. Really looking forward for it to become mainstream a
by est31 8y ago
DNA allows both very dense storage of data, and it doesn't deteriorate as quickly as other digital methods. Really looking forward for it to become mainstream and available.
The only disadvantage probably is that going forward, your genes will probably become more or less public. Every thing you touch also gets a copy of your genes, and if soon sequencing becomes really cheap and accessible to everyone, everyone could sequence the DNA of someone they are interested in and find out lots of very private info about them. Right now it's all locked up in labs and you can enforce consent policies, but the technology might be spread so far that this won't be possible.