DNA is by far the most dense storage medium that we know of. One gram of DNA can hold 10MM hours of high definition video.
DNA lasts a really long time. We can recover DNA from 100,000 years ago and still read it.
DNA can be replicated. That’s kind of how all living things work (and non-living things if we consider RNA).
Does that make DNA the most durable storage medium for preserving data? What might we do if we found data hidden in our DNA from eons ago?
See also:
- DNA can be used for pattern recognition
- This solves the durability problem but not the viewing problem of obsolete storage
- Societies live by decades, civilizations by centuries
- Deep time