This is Science transforming the human being... The Homo Sapiens era is over, here comes Homo Digitus, a transformed, enhanced "homo sapiens"... Totes fascinating and ugh-mazing! Yet I promise this is no "Mad Science" for Monster High student bodies ;-)
"A resurgence in organic technology is set to transform the world of electronic devices, offering a way to give the very fabric of life enhanced functionality." Data storage in your DNA is no fiction! (read here).
"(...) [T]he big problem was the cycle of obsolescence that all data-storing technologies go through. Old machines are junked in favour of new hardware (remember VCRs?) and any data stored on out-of-date media must be re-read and re-written onto the medium du jour, all at great expense. 'We thought: Isn’t there some other nano-machine that would allow us to store digital data?' says Birney. Both of them start laughing—the answer was so obvious. 'We said: Duh! It’s going to be DNA.'" (source).
Now transformative technologies - that is, technologies that can potentially transform us - are under way in organic electronics... Read here.
Source:
http://www.nature.com/news/plastic-fantastic-1.13429
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