Could all your digital photos be stored as DNA?

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An unsustainable situation:

"On Earth right now, there are about 10 trillion gigabytes of digital data, and every day, humans produce emails, photos, tweets, and other digital files that add up to another 2.5 million gigabytes of data. Much of this data is stored in enormous facilities known as exabyte data centers (an exabyte is 1 billion gigabytes), which can be the size of several football fields and cost around $1 billion to build and maintain."

"... DNA, which evolved to store massive quantities of information at very high density. A coffee mug full of DNA could theoretically store all of the world’s data ...
Scientists have already demonstrated that they can encode images and pages of text as DNA. ...

MIT biological engineers have demonstrated a way to easily retrieve data files stored as DNA. This could be a step toward using DNA archives to store enormous quantities of photos, images, and other digital content. ..."

Could all your digital photos be stored as DNA? | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology A technique for labeling and retrieving DNA data files from a large pool could help make DNA data storage feasible.