Because this is a discovery, not an invention. If they could make high-performance biological storage devices the size of hard drives, you don't think they wou

Because this is a discovery, not an invention. If they could make high-performance biological storage devices the size of hard drives, you don't think they would be doing this already? This probably required a machine significantly larger than most desktop computers, with a pricetag in the $100,000+ range. That and it has a R/W speed of ~30Kb/s... It will be in our hard drives when the technology has been developed to make that happen. I mean, graphene is already looking to be a far more efficient and powerful alternative to silicon. Why isn't that in our processors yet? It's because creating a logic gate and creating an x86 CPU are entirely different things. The same way that encoding a bunch of data into DNA and replicating it a few billion times is entirely different from making an on-demand biological data storage device.