All the Data on Earth Can Fit in a Cup of DNA in MIT's Jurassic Park Project

We don't need perfect retrieval if we've got plenty of replica space. Usenet solved degradation with PAR[0] files.

Extensive replication and error correction could go a long way to making this at least remotely viable.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive

One of my favorite facts is that the average male ejaculate contains 220PB of data.

DNA data is interesting but I have to figure that it would be more interesting to encode information into protein. DNA is 4 bases, more information than binary certainly, but with protein chains you could use all the amino acids there are. Apparently 500 have been found in nature so far although us humans personally use far fewer. It would also seem to me you could engineer a stronger protein structure then how DNA is structured.

If you've ever watched the movie Zero Theorem, their data analysts use data captures in fluid dynamics to manipulate and process the data. I always that that was a really interesting concept.

Now if only we could build a molecular Turing machine that can replicate and distribute the data so it is processed in an ever increasing parallel way.