If you read the metaphorical marketing data sheet, DNA can look really interesting. If you get down into what reading it actually entails, it honestly starts lo

If you read the metaphorical marketing data sheet, DNA can look really interesting. If you get down into what reading it actually entails, it honestly starts looking less enticing. Biology optimizes pretty heavily for constructing proteins with it and the ability to duplicate it, not generic data storage. There's a lot of details you don't learn in school about how transcription works that make it less and less appealing as a general-purpose data store the more you learn, IMHO. If nothing else, it looks more like tape storage than any sort of random access storage, which right off the bat is a pretty significant hit nowadays. DNA mastery is important on its own terms as biology mastery, but I wouldn't be surprised there is no point in the future in which it is the optimal mechanism for storing generic data.