Biologically Engineered DNA Data Storage will be a Layer of the Convergent Exponential Tech Stack

Science fiction has probably done a huge disservice to the emerging bioeconomy, depicting any engagement with biology-based entities or systems with what always seems to include the prerequisite unseemly, fear-inducing, salivary-esque, sometimes lugubrious blob-like, purple or green, mucousy, gelatin substance.  Or Tom Cruise crawling around on all fours to put his eyeball ball in his socket as Pre-crime agent John Anderton in the seminal Minority Report. We argue that the bioeconomy will lead all industry sectors into a fascinating (and anything but fear-inducing) future filled with abundance and promise – including DNA-based data storage capabilities.  DNA Data Storage?  Yes.  Let’s start there.  

The Bioeconomy will be the Foremost Economic Structure and Innovation Ecosystem of the Future 

Forget brick and mortar, steel, the gold standard, cotton, coal mines, steel mills, and gold bars.  Think enzymes, proteins, biomaterials, biocarbon conversion… bio-foundry services, and microbial factory tools.