Storing Data Nature's Way
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Claims that digital files encode into DNA and into living plants, with petabytes per gram as the theoretical density; lab work synthesizes A T C G sequences, inserts them into plants, then recovers files by sequencing with a nanopore sequencer (slow, hours to a day) — small files succeed. Notes current infrastructure uses ~2% global energy and could reach ~20–21% by 2030. Public experiments include a data flower shop and a living installation that demonstrably stores and retrieves tiny datasets.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:47Cloud contradictions
- 9:08DNA storage revolution
- 14:03From server farms to data forest
- 16:13Data Flower Shop experiment
- 20:44Data Garden retrieval
- 24:12Urban Data Forest concept
- 28:32Green data education
- 32:22NFT Garden project
- 42:23Living tech experiments
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