DNA could store all of the world's data in one room
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1. High cost and lack of experience are not reasons to not work on the technology. For example, quantum holography or other experimental storage ideas are also extremely expensive. Doesn't mean we shouldn't push research in the area.
2. We are reaching limits on how effectively we can continue to increase densities on conventional storage. It might not be this decade, but it's coming. This is why people are working on many different experimental technologies.