"Data storage in a petri dish"

[Alan <cfuture@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

See this Computerworld article:

http://tinyurl.com/34yjyo

Using the cellular machinery itself to store the data, preserve it (up 
to thousands of years they are saying), reproduce it, and keep it really 
really compact. (Think billions of bacteria in a milliliter of water, as 
quoted in the article).

Extracting it, they say, still needs a lot of work to bring down to 
reasonably repeatable reach. A couple of decades, they expect.

(Tongue firmly in cheek:)..Of course this just shows what amazing things 
can just pop out of a random mix of primordial ooze, just given enough 
time....

--Alan

Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book 
all [my members] were written, [which] in continuance were fashioned, 
when [as yet there was] none of them. (Psalm 139:16)