>>14184578Neuralink and technology like it will hopefully become the progenitor towards advancements that will help us quantify how much raw data a memory or a dream equates to, and thereby if you can then transcribe all the memories and dreams of a person into probably DNA used as a storage medium.
>DNA has several other features that make it desirable as a storage medium: It is extremely stable, and it is fairly easy (but expensive) to synthesize and sequence. Also, because of its high density — each nucleotide, equivalent to up to two bits, is about 1 cubic nanometer — an exabyte of data stored as DNA could fit in the palm of your hand.Sauce:
https://news.mit.edu/2021/dna-data-storage-0610Potentially, over the next 25-30 years, we'll figure out a way to mass produce DNA for this purpose and then figuring out ways of accessing data and improving read/write and latency of that will undoubtedly increase considerably. In any case, an exabyte for the rough storage area of the palm of your hand. That's pretty good numbers. Stack them say 5 palms high and you get 5 Exabytes. Theoretically, if a human "mind" and everything that makes a person a person can be quantified into a 5 Exabyte volume, and you can then store that data safely and retrieve it say 10 times without data degradation, then you can create generation ships where people are data and most of the ship is hardware for printing their bodies on a new colony world. I set the data degradation threshold to only 10, because it becomes lunacy if you can print the same mind with a body 100 times and the ethical and moral implications that has both for the new world and the new colony is cataclysmic arguably.*
Then with fusion/m-am drives, you can yeet these vessels at %s of the speed of light and cross vast interstellar distances in relative time and create new civilizations elsewhere.
*But, the real question is can you add to this data and back up people to reprint later? Cue Altered Carbon.
