Posted on 07/04/2019 12:20:59 PM PDT by BenLurkin
DNA molecules are well known as carriers of huge amounts of biological information, and there is growing interest in using DNA in engineered data storage devices that can hold vastly more data than our current hard drives. But new research shows that DNA isn't the only game in town when it comes to molecular data storage.
A study led by Brown University researchers shows that it's possible to store and retrieve data stored in artificial metabolomes—arrays of liquid mixtures containing sugars, amino acids and other types of small molecules. For a paper published in the journal PLOS ONE, the researchers showed that they could encode kilobyte-scale image files into metabolite solutions and read the information back out again.
Another potential advantage, Rosenstein says, stems from the fact that many metabolites can react with each other to form new compounds. That creates the potential for molecular systems that not only store data, but also manipulate it—performing computations within metabolite mixtures.
The idea behind molecular computing grows out of an increasing need for more data storage capacity. By 2040, the world will have produced as much as 3 septillion (that's 3 followed by 24 zeros) bits of data by some estimates. Storing, searching and processing all of that data is a daunting challenge, and there simply may not be enough chip-grade silicon on Earth to do this with traditional semiconductor chips. Funded by a contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration (DARPA), a group of engineers and chemists at Brown has been working on a variety of techniques for using small molecules to create new information systems.
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I’m scared of technology anymore.
Seems it always gets co-opted and weaponized against we the people to enslave.
I don’t remember voting for surveillance cameras at every intersection?
I’m glad I knew a day when ice fishing on the Saginaw Bay sitting with my back to the whipping wind, parka hood up and pulling in 83 perch with my father (who I buried Tuesday).
No internet. No PCs of any kind. No cell phones.
3 septiilian
3 octillian
3 novillion
4 decillion
Seems like there is a finite limit...
They must change the name ,LOL
And there were people who were 80 when you were doing your fishing saying how much they HATE all of the cars on the road now and that damn TV when radio shows were just fine.
And that rock n roll!!!!
And the next generation will complain about the generation after them...etc :)
Yes but the later complainers have more of a point.
The numbers of people go up vastly, so does the products, and thrown away garbage/old products, at rates never before dealt with, it becomes new problems in and of themselves that never existed before.
“I’m scared of technology anymore.
Seems it always gets co-opted and weaponized against we the people to enslave.”
I think it started when cave nan discovered rocks as weapons.
All downhill since then.
>They must change the name ,LOL
Haha. I was going to post that when I saw your post.
I can hardly wait to get my new metabolome drive, eleventy bazillion bits in a wafer the size of my fingernail. That could store the entire Windows 11 distro.
Sort of like an organic computer/brain hybrid.
Just think of all the small creatures they could make and big ones too. A super soldier one day.
And this too will be “twisted” as the cool way to keep Data close by.
Enter Stage Left: They will prepackage the Mark of the Beast without informing the Masses until it’s too late and they Double-click the Nation wide mob666.EXE Self Extracting file Linking ALL Your Banking, Medical, Criminal, Credit History and Rating, a list of every Car and House You ever owned AND Fill in the rest...
And You find out when suddenly in Your Eyesight a Summary of Financial Records and it now shows NOTHING !!! $0.00 as the Balance and a TEXT MESSAGE saying how you can Earn Credits to purchase needed items for survival of Your Family. Also is a Scheduled Date and Time that the Firearms and Ammunition Collection Truck will be at your location...
Maybe it will be adequate for Lotus Notes.
Ping to above.
Hitchhiking will be revolutionized. :^)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration (DARPA)
and there it is...
And they call the Whistle Blowers Crazy !
Philip Corso told how it is done in His book. The Day after Roswell.
Trickle, trickle, Drip, drop, Tick, tock WOW LOOK WHAT WE MADE IN THE UNIVERSITY LAB. (no, useful idiots you just ironed out the details for the public)
;^)
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