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New DNA 'hard drive' could keep files intact for millions of years

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Re: Sci Fi becomes reality

Philip K Dick's "The Preserving Machine"

No, not P K Dick, it was some space-opera genre series, just cannot recall who wrote it.

It struck me at the time that the idea is quite smart. While writing and reading may be a bit on the slow side, the information density is ridiculous and all the error-correction and repair mechanics already exist in nature.

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