The future of data storage | Experts Explain

Nowadays, a 24-hour period, 145 billion emails are sent. Some 4.5 Internet searches. Every day we generate 2.5 trillion bytes of data.

At first sight, no existing medium could store storage such a huge mass of data.
Does this mean our societies are facing an impasse?

Scientists are looking for a solution in a device we all carry within us and that has already proved to be effective: DNA.

Documentary: The end of Memory
Directed by: Vincent Amouroux
Production: ZED

[JamesSmith-ixjd]

Why limiting yourself to something that the nature could have made.
If you want to store data for 500 million years, in any humidity, and temperature of -270 to +1000 just encode it into an artificial diamond or a silicon wafer.

[dheerajdadhich]

He looks like (in thumbnail) the man who says "noice" after making "tup" sound

[hoteny]

I really need something durable, too bad its never happening for consumers, otherwise how would companies sell more and more?

[SC-zqcu]

2:37 This is false. If tech keeps upgrading we will always have tech to read dvd, cd, floppies etc. The problem is understanding what is being i.e. knowing the encoding used in the medium. Nothing in the dna tells us what that is because it is entirely subjective to whoever made the encoding. So in order to know what is being read in a dna the encoding has to be remembered, just like how we have to remember the encoding used in digital media if we want to keep being able to read them.

[hoteny]

2:23 a question, do you tell people you wanna interview to look at random places except for camera (which must be hard, pretending to do smth)

[mrjackharbour]

4.5 internet searches per 24-hour period? Where the middle of the Pacific Ocean?

[apuapu]

saving knowledge to dna is all fun and all until a nuclear war hits.

[TungstenCarbideProjectile]

extremely unreliable and wasteful way to store data.