[ExI] Bulk storage in DNA

[Tomasz Rola]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2012, Adrian Tymes wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:47 AM, David Lubkin <lubkin at unreasonable.com> wrote:
> > http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/aug/16/book-written-dna-code?INTCMP=SRCH
> > Book written in DNA code
> >
> > My brain is roiling with the implications of this. Don't be surprised
> > if short fiction manifests.
> 
> A book written in the "junk" DNA of a large family, socially
> engineered to breed mainly with each other (the genetic risks
> of inbreeding having been removed), with pages written as
> whole strands of DNA so the pages might get randomly
> distributed but each page would be intact?
> 
> Someone whose DNA was supposedly written to include a
> novel, whose life then plays out much like that novel - only to
> learn later that it was only a metaphor (the life that was lead
> is spoken of as a novel, and the genes just set it up) or that
> the novel DNA was actually inside someone else instead?
> 
> Some magic incantation written in DNA, whose strands were
> dispersed through normal breeding through the generations, but
> which by chance (or not) come back together in a far-distant
> descendant?

During medical examination it is discovered one man has a copy of all 
Michael Jackson CDs in his junk DNA. The man is immediately castrated by 
pirate hunters working for multimedia conglomerate (with cooperation of 
lawyers and police). Or, to make it more fun, he escapes, runs away, gets 
caught etc later. I think this could be made into new, modern kind of 
"Beverly Hills" series or something. If only Holly-uhum-uhum had balls of 
any kind, even prosthetic ones.

Regards,
Tomasz Rola

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