Almost all large corporations are now conducting research in the field of creating new information carriers. But Microsoft Research seems to have gone the farthest. Last year, developers said they wanted to use DNA to store information. And if you believe the MIT Technology Review, this will happen in 3 years, when they launch a system that will allow you to remotely store data on DNA carriers.
Microsoft is currently partnering with Twist Bioscience. This office specializes in the production of artificial DNA. The developers believe that their storage media will be comparable in size to the Xerox copiers of the 70s.
The use of DNA as an information carrier actually makes sense: this molecule has an extremely high recording density. For example, as a spokesperson for Semiconductor Research Corporation said, In addition, the researchers also plan to speed up the recording of information on DNA. If now the speed is 400 bytes per second, then soon this figure should grow to 100 megabytes per second. Despite the fact that ready-made prototypes of DNA carriers of information are already available, the high price hinders the ubiquity of this technology. Microsoft is confident that the cost of storing data on DNA must be reduced by at least 10,000 times for the technology to "step into the masses."
VLADIMIR KUZNETSOV