The Best Storage Device is YOU!

Minus porn, pirated movies, music and games it will probably fit in a small car...
Reserve the trunk for cat pictures!

I just calculated the cost of shoving the internet into a 6 tonne cube of DNA and converting it back to binary. It's $56745355338000000000.

That's fifty-six quintillion, seven hundred forty-five quadrillion, three hundred fifty-five trillion, three hundred thirty-eight billion dollars.

I'll go set up a kickstarter so when civilization is destroyed whatever arises will get the internet back.

Could I write a filter algorithm to take out the stuff that isn't wroth saving? It'll save you a few bucks.

No we must save it all.

Even the obsessive amount of cat pictures!?

No such thing! Col_Jessep will back me on this one.

A simple Google search will prove me right...

Man nature does everything so much better than we do.

Who'd have thought a few billion years of randomised evolution would trump our best engineers?

We improve aspects of our biology with technology.
We improve aspects of our technology by mimicking biology.

Sometimes, nature is actually pretty crap. Nature sucks at doing calculations really fast for example.

Really? I think it's stunningly fast! At least from the perspective of the nervous system reacting and how the cells can organize themselves to solve problems quickly and efficiently. It's always doing calculations to adjust and maintain homeostasis.

But if you're viewing nature from afar and over a period of time, correct, it cannot evolve quickly to adapt to new conditions. It needs its molecular genetic code "mutated" to give it a new code for homeostasis.

The brain sends signals at speeds along the lines of around 110 metres per second. Computers are literally millions of times faster.

Well that's very likely because being able to calculate quickly isn't a hugely beneficial skill in evolutionary terms. If your arm is only a metre away a 110mps signal is ample for a rapid reaction, and any faster isn't going to make much of a difference.

Nature is better in almost all areas in terms of efficiency - natural catalysts are faster, energy transfer and conversion is faster and more efficient, building molecules and structures is astonishingly quick and efficient. We're only just learning how to harness that power and use it selectively. Some crazy good stuff is gonna be coming from the biotech industry in the next 30 years.

It's too bad nature decided not to develop nuclear fusion. We could sure use a hand there.

Oh wow. I just had a wicked sick concept for a sci fi short story.

You owe me royalties.