All the World's Data in DNA | Dina Zielinski | TEDxVienna

The very first hard drive needed a forklift to be moved and stored the equivalent of one MP3 file. A modern drive that weighs a bit more than an iPhone can hold 2 years worth of MP3s. Still, current storage devices can't keep up with humanity's deluge of data. All the world's data could fit in the trunk of a car using nature's oldest storage device: DNA. It's possible to read, write, and copy this data and, unlike the first hard drive, DNA will never be obsolete. Dina recently joined the Institut Curie as a bioinformatics scientist. She is fascinated by bringing biological data to life, from decoding mutations in cancer to encoding movies in DNA. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at