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Forget silicon – SQL on DNA is the next frontier for databases
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- not_a_cop75 7y agoEncoding what is essentially able to produce random proteins by backing up data to it. What could possibly go wrong?
- basicplus2 7y agoMake a great movie plot.. data base written.. creating new killer bacteria that wipes out humanity..
- mywittyname 7y agoAlternatively, a dystopian future where big media companies mine human DNA for copyright infringements and courts will order said people to purchase licensing rights to exist. With the alternative being slavery, suicide, or having the offending portions of DNA removed. The act could be called the DNCA.
- TomMarius 7y agoOr because of patent infringements... some biotech corporation might have these
- winrid 7y agoDROP HUMANITY
- epiphanitus 7y agoCthulu took a mooc! Run for your life!
- rdrock 7y agohttps://brandonsanderson.com/books/legion/legion-skin-deep/ https://brandonsanderson.com/books/legion/legion-skin-deep/ Legion: Skin Deep is a modern-day thriller/mystery with some science fiction undertones. In this story, Stephen is taken on a case to find a corpse with important information encoded in its DNA.
- epiphanitus 7y ago"Simply put, at this pace, there soon won't be enough data storage and compute material to go by. Which is why people have been looking into alternative storage media for data for a while now." If this is true, then why is cloud storage so cheap? What's wrong with just building bigger data centers? Does anybody know what the technical benefit of this technology would be? In any event, there's something amazing about humans using the same data storage that living organisms use.