http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/134672-harvard-cracks-dna-storage-crams-700-terabytes-of-data-into-a-single-gram

QuoteA bioengineer and geneticist at Harvard's Wyss Institute have successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data — around 700 terabytes — in a single gram of DNA, smashing the previous DNA data density record by a thousand times]

good ol' america, trendsetting once again...

Bet the army and alike have already been using it smuggle information across boarders. James Bond eat your heart out lol

LM, in terms of human evolution, I think this is indeed our trigger event; the next leap in everything we do. 

But in reality, it just means unlimited porn

I imagine by 2015 every home will have a glass jam jar bubbling away in the corner, housing a blob of tissue all wired up to a router and a USB 3.0 port for ease of use.

This is so cool.

For many years now (about 12) I've thought of a science fiction story where The Librarian curates massive amounts of information stored in the "junk" DNA of a sequoia grove - 700 TB /gm * 1.0*10^7 gm/tree * 5000 trees in a big grove = a lot of storage