My Generation

Digital Storage, Nature’s Storage

Today I was thinking about storage and digital information. In particular, I thought about how much information I had stored on my computer and if I had to physically represent all that information. It wouldn’t fit in my room. Hundreds of textbooks, thousands of songs, several hundred documents, many pictures, etc. Then I thought about it in reverse, how we take it for granted, and how ridiculous it is that I can store all that information that I can’t even remember or read in a lifetime into something smaller than the size of my index finger. 

My uncle and aunt who have been practicing homeopathy for 25+ years told me about their main ideology when I visited India last winter break in 2009. They said that they believe everything is encoded with information, energy and instructions like DNA. What they did was encode information in just about anything, like water or sugar. This belief is strong and well in eastern philosophy. 

If man can figure out a way to encode such incredible information in such a dense fashion than I think nature can too. I’m just trying to imagine if/when there will be a day when we figure out the incredible detail and information stored in a leaf or an atom, or a mountain. I think our five senses only skim the surface of what is actually there.