Comments on: How to store a book in DNA http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-to-store-a-book-in-dna Accelerating Intelligence Sat, 18 May 2013 23:15:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Barbara http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-to-store-a-book-in-dna/comment-page-1#comment-30731 Barbara Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:45:41 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=159262#comment-30731 Very cool that an entire book could be encoded in DNA. Does anyone know what device was used to read and copy the DNA-encoded book? If the authors HAD included a DNA insert with their book, exactly how would anyone read that DNA? Very cool that an entire book could be encoded in DNA. Does anyone know what device was used to read and copy the DNA-encoded book? If the authors HAD included a DNA insert with their book, exactly how would anyone read that DNA?

]]> By: Phillfrog http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-to-store-a-book-in-dna/comment-page-1#comment-28790 Phillfrog Sun, 19 Aug 2012 14:33:51 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=159262#comment-28790 Not going to be much use to a future civilisation as they'd have to rediscover this technology in order to decode it. Would be better to have the book as the only full size thing and all other information compressed in this way. Pretty much the inverse. All bad joking aside, this is amazing. I remember when I was 17 and took a bus to a nearby village to buy a 100 megabyte hard drive for about £100. You can now pick up a 1 terabyte hard drive from PC World for about the same price. Then there's this tech, which is at least 1 trillion times as dense. That's not bad progress in 16 years! Not going to be much use to a future civilisation as they’d have to rediscover this technology in order to decode it. Would be better to have the book as the only full size thing and all other information compressed in this way. Pretty much the inverse. All bad joking aside, this is amazing.

I remember when I was 17 and took a bus to a nearby village to buy a 100 megabyte hard drive for about £100. You can now pick up a 1 terabyte hard drive from PC World for about the same price. Then there’s this tech, which is at least 1 trillion times as dense. That’s not bad progress in 16 years!

]]> By: asiwel http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-to-store-a-book-in-dna/comment-page-1#comment-28704 asiwel Sat, 18 Aug 2012 19:01:49 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=159262#comment-28704 Have to laugh. This is hilarious! What a thing to do. 70 billion copies of your synthetic biology book floating around in a test tube. (Well maybe in a chip.) Certainly appears probably to validate most of the scientific points discussed in the book narrative, I'd say. Have to laugh. This is hilarious! What a thing to do. 70 billion copies of your synthetic biology book floating around in a test tube. (Well maybe in a chip.) Certainly appears probably to validate most of the scientific points discussed in the book narrative, I’d say.

]]> By: arch1 http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-to-store-a-book-in-dna/comment-page-1#comment-28566 arch1 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:20:33 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=159262#comment-28566 It would be a nice touch if the authors could assure readers that the book in their hands had been printed based entirely on DNA-encoded information (I can't tell from the summary whether this in fact will be the case). It would be a nice touch if the authors could assure readers that the book in their hands had been printed based entirely on DNA-encoded information (I can’t tell from the summary whether this in fact will be the case).

]]> By: Ian Clarke http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-to-store-a-book-in-dna/comment-page-1#comment-28565 Ian Clarke Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:17:29 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=159262#comment-28565 I think this is pretty mind-blowing! It's a shame the read/write capabilities are slower than with standard media (it would be interesting to know just how much slower), but who knows, may be even this shortcoming can be resolved eventually? This has got to have a big impact on our future tech. I think this is pretty mind-blowing! It’s a shame the read/write capabilities are slower than with standard media (it would be interesting to know just how much slower), but who knows, may be even this shortcoming can be resolved eventually? This has got to have a big impact on our future tech.

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