On 3/1/07, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As to density, dry DNS might be dense, but if you factor in the
solvent and the reader biomachinery, molecular memory will run rings
about it. And there's just nothing beating like encoding things
as crystal lattice defects -- but the random access latency will
be just horrible -- but if you ablatively scan the surface, the
streaming rate could be killer.
I wonder about storage capacity per unit size that can be packaged in
the bacteria's DNA. If it is really dense, it should be quite fun to
have all of Wikipedia in the cells of your talking parrot. or oodles
of mp3s stored in your singing mynah bird.
Thaths
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