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Have you ever lost a bunch of data on a hard drive? Many of us have - and it ain’t no parade. Actually I devoted another blog to data recovery issues and some of the tricks I’ve learned around it. Anyway, hard drives and the like are pretty unstable mediums. All things are relative and if you are comparing them to bacteria that can hang around for an extremely long time - then yep, our digital mediums stink. Masaru Tomita and his folks at Keio University are hiding information in bacteria. What a dirty business.
Genetic codes contain massive amounts of information. Tomita and his crew stashed Einstein’s e=mc squared into a bacterium. This didn’t change the nature of the genetic code in the bacterium. It retained its traits and characteristics. This opens the door to utilizing biological units to hide and transfer incredible amounts of data. Data could be ciphered and transported in individuals, bacteria, dogs, cats, plants, etc. So, just how crazy is corporate and national espionage going to be? And what does the future hold when information retention and retrieval continues to grow smaller? I simply can’t imagine what the next 30 years holds.
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wowzers! scary stuff