Imagine that future civilisations are looking for evidence of us. Digital human life. And they find nothing. No Buzzfeed. No Slack. No GitHub. Nothing. That’s actually a distinct possibility as the current means of storing our increasingly large digital past exist only virtually, are inefficient and are increasingly too small to cope with the vast amounts of data we’re generating. This week, Microsoft has announced a partnership that could fundamentally transform our relationship with our past and the future. Twist Bioscience has handed Microsoft 10 million long oligonucleotides of DNA molecules (quite a lot), so it can start testing the use of this “prehistoric information…
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