data storage in dna becomes a reality.

I'll believe it when I see a REAL commercial implementation. My father was shown a concept about 50 years or so ago and it took ANOTHER GROUP of companies about 40 years to START to approach the claim. They are NOW claiming that they should be able to make a cd that, if you took a stack of them dozens of disks high would be about as dense as the tiny cube they claimed could.

OK, THAT is a pretty dumb way to put it. Number one, it is NOT true! You can NOT look at a human and even find THEIR history, let alone the history of everything else.
Number two, if you wanted to claim that, you could talk about the quadrillions of pentabytes of info stored in just certain metals in the earth. We are STILL trying to optimize that of some that we have mined, and we STILL have not seen the limit. A drive the size of seagates first 5.25" 40MB drive(I think around 1982 or so) could NOW hold DOZENS of TERABYTES! A drive the size of DECs first 5MB removable drive(around 1979 maybe) could now hold PENTABYTES! A drive the size of my first 1GB drive(around 1999) could now hold a couple TERABYTES!

Frankly, I think the technology will be abandoned before we find a real limit! Until maybe 8years ago, it seemed to be the only real viable technology. NOW, there is flash, EEPROM, and other technologies that are now limited only by cost. Within a few years it may be cheap enough that virtually ALL commercial applications will use SSD, etc... Within another decade, the rest might be replaced.

Steve

If you look at the akashic records as the cloud, it makes more sense to me to simple teach the human computer to connect to the cloud where everything known is already stored.