Implications

Our global data storage demand is estimated to reach over 175 trillion gigabytes by 2025. As such, comes questions of whether or not data centers, clouds, and digital devices will be able to satisfy the growing need for data depositories. DNA storage offers a unique solution, promoting ultra-high density data retention and longevity. In fact, one sugar-cube is able to hold 250 million gigabytes of information; Not only surpassing our current capacity of digital storage, but that of our digital lifetime.

Furthermore, the rise of third-party data storage has elicited the need for privacy, and so a new method for turning nearly any inanimate object into a viable storage unit, called "DNA of things" has arrived, — using DNA as the storage medium — making it possible to save extensive amounts of data in a variety of items including buttons, pens, and cups to retrieve years down the line; promoting the rise of standalone information storage devices, allowing for some semblance of privacy in a world of stolen data.