It is perhaps the ultimate in wearable technology: carrying data not just with you, but as part of you. Scientists have apparently had significant replicable success with encoding data within your DNA. Not just a little data, either: petabytes and exabytes, and it seems to be quite durable.
There are, of course, about a bazillion questions here. Expense and practicality are certainly in the forefront. But we also wonder about versioning — how do you update your data reliably, so that all your DNA or cells are carrying the most recent copy of your data? And if your most intimate data is replicated through all your cells, are you shedding it along with dead skin cells as you walk through the world? It seems to us that all that data would need to be encrypted. But if only you hold the encryption key, what good would the data be if you’re incapacitated, which is when people would most urgently need access to that data?
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