Any information you can map in bits you can store in DNA." It's so dense - able to store a theoretical maximum of 215 petabytes (215 million gigabytes) in a single gram - that all the data ever produced could be stored in the back of a tractor trailer truck.
It's incredibly dense, many, many thousands of times denser than the densest technology that we have today. "DNA is a molecular storage medium that is remarkable. "Nature has nailed it," Luis Ceze, a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, says. Zhirnov and other scientists are looking at the human body, looking to DNA. The race is on to find another medium capable of storing massive amounts of information in as small a space as possible. By 2050, we're going to need to store 10 to the 30 bits, compared to 10 to the 23 bits in 2016." That amount of storage space is equivalent to each of the world's seven billion people owning almost six trillion - that's 10 to the 12th power - iPhone Xs with 256GB storage space. "We are facing a crisis that's comparable to the oil crisis in the 1970s. We have reached the physical limits," Victor Zhirnov, chief scientist at the Semiconductor Research Corporation, says. It's unlikely that we can make flash memory smaller. "There won't be enough silicon to store all the data we need.
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