{"id":13557,"date":"2015-02-27T15:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T23:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13557"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:07:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:07:19","slug":"worlds-data-could-fit-on-a-teaspoon-sized-dna-hard-drive-and-survive-thousands-of-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/worlds-data-could-fit-on-a-teaspoon-sized-dna-hard-drive-and-survive-thousands-of-years","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s Data Could Fit on a Teaspoon-Sized DNA Hard Drive and Survive Thousands of Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a title=\"Posts by Jason Dorrier\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/jdorrier\/\" rel=\"author\">Jason Dorrier<\/a> \u2014 Singularity Hub<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P0\">The blueprint of every living thing on the planet is encoded in DNA. We know the stuff can hold a lot of information. But how much is a lot? We could theoretically encode the world\u2019s data (from emails to albums, movies to novels) on just a few grams of DNA. DNA already preserves life itself\u2014now it might also preserve life as we live it.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P1\">According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg22530084.300-glassedin-dna-makes-the-ultimate-time-capsule.html#.VOeErbDF9X-\">New Scientist<\/a>, a gram of DNA could theoretically store 455 exabytes of data. And Quartz <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/345640\/scientists-say-all-the-worlds-data-can-fit-on-a-dna-hard-drive-the-size-of-a-teaspoon\/\">drives the point home<\/a>. If the world has about 1.8 zettabytes of data, according to a 2011 estimate, all the world\u2019s information would fit on a four-gram DNA hard drive the size of a teaspoon.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2015\/02\/20\/worlds-data-could-fit-on-a-teaspoon-sized-dna-hard-drive-and-survive-thousands-of-years\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jason Dorrier \u2014 Singularity Hub The blueprint of every living thing on the planet is encoded in DNA. We know the stuff can hold a lot of information. But how much is a lot? We could theoretically encode the world\u2019s data (from emails to albums, movies to novels) on just a few grams of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1502,1628,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-data","category-dna","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46603,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13557\/revisions\/46603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}