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RE: U.S. Intelligence Community Wants To Use DNA For Data Storage
for starters it is not human DNA, just DNA, the DNA storage technology is kind of cool, it makes sense not to reinvent the wheel when God made such an amazing information storage technology, what's alarming was this prediction:
there will be more than 140 gigabytes of data generated daily for every single human on Earth by 2020
Big Brother would have to be impressed by that.
The intelligence community wants to store data inside DNA that alludes that storing data inside human DNA is likely their objective.
No, I understand that is being suggested here but their objective is clearly to store data about humans, not in humans. They have a need to store all the data you generate. What purpose would storing data in humans serve? Humans don't last very long, they have the same problem as CDs.
Clandestine purposes and since it's the intelligence community that's not entirely unplausible that, that would be the ultimate goal. But yeah storing data in cold storage DNA is what scientists have been doing for years and it seems to work. The research is advancing into the IC and actually this has been admitted before. But I couldn't find it so I didn't include it in the article.
If you can encode data on DNA and then put that data in an organism I suppose that would be a way to smuggle data but then wouldn't it be easier and better to encode it on a carrot and then just walk through customs or whatever with a carrot in a lunch bag?
They were also talking about DNA by the gram, a gram of DNA is not going to fit in a human cell. They want to be able to store all the data that everyone generates which is scary enough by itself. Why does the government or anyone else need every single detail of every single persons life forever unless they want absolute control?