Our increasingly digitized world has a data storage problem. Hard drives and other storage media are reaching their limits, and we are creating data faster than we can store it. Fortunately, we don't have to look too far for a solution, because nature already has a powerful storage medium with DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). It is this genetic material that Xingyu Jiang at the Southern University of Science and Technology in China and colleagues are using to create DNA storage cassettes.
Very cool!
I’m sure the data/space savings are great, but for me it’s the ‘cool’ factor of mixing blood and machines, although it sounds very dystopian when I word it like that.
If you want to mix blood and machines may I recommend manufacturing? We do it all the time.