Well if we do not like our current storage mediums: magnetic, optical, or whatever, perhaps we should develop and utilize something different, like Organic Storage based upon long strands DNA. Backups? well DNA is after all self-replicating (isn't it?) and would in turn back itself up automatically and even repair lost or damaged strands of data over time. Yet of course there seems to be some inheirent downfalls to this storage meduim which would question it's durability and stability. I.E. natural Viruses (That would be messy!), Data Mutation, and plain old evolution, which limits the reliability of the storage in non-sterile environments which is pretty much everywhere. Hmmm perhaps I'm just stupid (ignore this message) The Nein-Ja (^_^) forget it.
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Well if we do not like our current storage mediums: magnetic, optical, or whatever, perhaps we should develop and utilize something different, like Organic Storage based upon long strands DNA. Backups? well DNA is after all self-replicating (isn't it?) and would in turn back itself up automatically and even repair lost or damaged strands of data over time. Yet of course there seems to be some inheirent downfalls to this storage meduim which would question it's durability and stability. I.E. natural Viruses (That would be messy!), Data Mutation, and plain old evolution, which limits the reliability of the storage in non-sterile environments which is pretty much everywhere. Hmmm perhaps I'm just stupid (ignore this message) The Nein-Ja (^_^) forget it.