{"id":90164,"date":"2019-05-01T06:02:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T13:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/storage-beyond-the-cloud"},"modified":"2019-05-01T06:02:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T13:02:36","slug":"storage-beyond-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/storage-beyond-the-cloud","title":{"rendered":"Storage beyond the cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/storage-beyond-the-cloud2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new way to store information in molecules could preserve the contents of the New York Public Library in a teaspoon of protein, without energy, for millions of years.<\/p>\n<p>Books can burn. Computers get hacked. DVDs degrade. Technologies to store information\u2013ink on paper, computers, CDs and DVDs, and even DNA\u2013continue to improve. And yet, threats as simple as water and as complex as cyber-attacks can still corrupt our records.<\/p>\n<p>As the data boom continues to boom, more and more information gets filed in less and less space. Even the cloud\u2013whose name promises opaque, endless space\u2013will eventually run out of space, can\u2019t thwart all hackers, and gobbles up energy. Now, a new way to store information could stably house data for millions of years, lives outside the hackable internet, and, once written, uses no energy. All you need is a chemist, some cheap molecules, and your precious information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/storage-beyond-the-cloud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new way to store information in molecules could preserve the contents of the New York Public Library in a teaspoon of protein, without energy, for millions of years. Books can burn. Computers get hacked. DVDs degrade. Technologies to store information\u2013ink on paper, computers, CDs and DVDs, and even DNA\u2013continue to improve. And yet, threats [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34,15,418,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-habitats","category-internet","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90164","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\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}