This idea was also proposed by David E.H. Jones in his Daedalus column (which now appears in Nature). His article on 31 January, 1985, entitled "Archival Junk" discusses the use of DNA to encode the essence of human culture in case of another Dark Age. The article also appears in his compendium, The Further Inventions of Daedalus (Oxford University Press, 1999).
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This idea was also proposed by David E.H. Jones in his Daedalus column (which now appears in Nature). His article on 31 January, 1985, entitled "Archival Junk" discusses the use of DNA to encode the essence of human culture in case of another Dark Age. The article also appears in his compendium, The Further Inventions of Daedalus (Oxford University Press, 1999).