Forget silicon – SQL on DNA is the next frontier for databases

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18 points·LopRabbit··8 comments

Encoding what is essentially able to produce random proteins by backing up data to it.

What could possibly go wrong?

"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.

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.

Make a great movie plot.. data base written.. creating new killer bacteria that wipes out humanity..

Alternatively, 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.

Or because of patent infringements... some biotech corporation might have these

DROP HUMANITY

Cthulu took a mooc! Run for your life!

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