DNA-based cassette tapes
BOP II Topic of the Week: Have you heard of the DNA-based "cassette tape" created by scientists that can store 36 petabytes of data—the equivalent of 36,000 hard drives or 3 billion songs. It’s amazing, but is it necessary as we run out of storage space? What are the implications for how we preserve knowledge, culture, and memory? If you could encode one piece of your life into DNA for future generations - what would it be? A sketch? A recipe? A letter?
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I understand the theory but I don't quite understand how it's going to be stored? On what? I see it talks about the old-school polyester-nylon blend tape. But I don't see what or how this digital data is going to be stored and accessed.