THE CONVERSATION: The libraries of the future will be made of DNA

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Period5 Jan 2018

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  • TitleThe libraries of the future will be made of DNA
    Media name/outletThe Conversation
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date5/01/18
    DescriptionThere are 6,000 tweets sent a second. In the time you have read this sentence, 42,000 tweets will have been sent. At an average of 34 characters per tweet that’s 1,428,000 characters.

    Worldwidewebsize daily estimates the size of the internet. On the day of writing, it amounted to 4.59 billion pages and a billion websites. This is the “indexed” internet, and doesn’t include the “dark web” or private databases.
    URLhttps://theconversation.com/the-libraries-of-the-future-will-be-made-of-dna-86274
    PersonsJerome De Groot
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Keywords

  • DNA
  • libraries
  • data storage