re: If You Had to Financially Back One Emerging Technology What Would it Be?

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Blockchain

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I’m already in this space. Vechain is going to change the world. I was in on the ground floor thankfully.

either cold fusion or something dealing with porn

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An alternative to hard drives is progressing: DNA-based data storage. DNA—which consists of long chains of the nucleotides A, T, C and G—is life’s information-storage material. Data can be stored in the sequence of these letters, turning DNA into a new form of information technology. It is already routinely sequenced (read), synthesized (written to) and accurately copied with ease. DNA is also incredibly stable, as has been demonstrated by the complete genome sequencing of a fossil horse that lived more than 500,000 years ago. And storing it does not require much energy.

But it is the storage capacity that shines. DNA can accurately stow massive amounts of data at a density far exceeding that of electronic devices. The simple bacterium Escherichia coli, for instance, has a storage density of about 1019 bits per cubic centimeter, according to calculations published in 2016 in Nature Materials by George Church of Harvard University and his colleagues. At that density, all the world’s current storage needs for a year could be well met by a cube of DNA measuring about one meter on a side.

The prospect of DNA data storage is not merely theoretical. In 2017, for instance, Church’s group at Harvard adopted CRISPR DNA-editing technology to record images of a human hand into the genome of E. coli, which were read out with higher than 90 percent accuracy. And researchers at the University of Washington and Microsoft Research have developed a fully automated system for writing, storing and reading data encoded in DNA. A number of companies, including Microsoft and Twist Bioscience, are working to advance DNA-storage technology.

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Space Force

Good tech. I bought on the ground floor too but sold before it went to the sub sub basement. Might buy back at some point.

Transparent aluminum.

This was a Star Trek IV ref., but it is a real, recently created ceramic alloy. I had no idea.

Zero point energy

Better battery technology is really holding us back.

Something to do with that

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DNA data storage

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A sperm contains approximately 35 MB of data. There are about 100 million sperm in an average ejaculation. So, that's a data transfer of 3.5 petabytes. If the ejaculation takes 10 seconds, that's a data transfer rate of 350 terabytes per second.

Only one sperm can be used, though, so the packet loss is tremendous.

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THC breathalyzer

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Those people are going to Hell.