This is scary.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/07 ... a-j25.html
New research, published in the journal Nature by Nick Goldman and his colleagues, has combined genetics and computer science to develop a technique that allows any type of data to be reliably stored in the molecule deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), offering a way to archive data over spans of decades, centuries and millennia that previously had never been practical or cost-efficient. The data that was stored totaled 739 kilobytes and the original files were retrieved with 100 percent accuracy.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80bea ... a-reality/
The thing holding the technology back at this point is the cost. Sequencing and especially synthesizing the DNA is a pricey process, but like most new technologies, it is getting cheaper fast. The researchers say DNA data storage could be a large-scale solution as soon as 2023.
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Perhaps there will be "engineered" babies in the future whose names/social security numbers will be permanently encoded in their DNA even before birth................
