Deep underground near Lausanne – where there is apparently still a budget for high-tech – Swiss researchers are working on a method to store the “knowledge of humanity” not on hard drives, but directly in the genome – synthetic DNA, the new cloud of the gods.
At EPFL, the favorite playground for academic world saviors with a gene sequencing fetish, they've developed a system that encodes digital data such as text, images, or presumably even the latest ESG directive in DNA, packages it in miniature capsules, and stores it at subzero temperatures. A candy bar filled with terabytes—every archivist's wet dream.
And as if all that didn't sound megalomaniacal enough, you no longer need a computer to read it – just a beam of light. A hologram laser reveals the stored knowledge contactlessly, without wear and tear, without data loss – entirely without human thought, of course.
The idea behind it? To preserve humanity's cultural heritage for millennia—the very heritage we're simultaneously driving into the ground with TikTok trends, war rhetoric, and bought science. But hey, at least the instruction manual for a coffee machine might survive the next climate collapse.
And should humanity wipe itself out—which currently seems quite realistic—some extraterrestrial life form could read our collected WhatsApp backups and wonder why our motto was apparently “data over thinking.”
Welcome to the age where we prefer to preserve our stupidity rather than question it. Welcome to the age where we are godlike Modifying DNA – here as a stable, long-term way to store information.
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