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From the Ted Talk by Dina Zielinski: How we can store digital data in DNA

Unscramble the Blue Letters


But behind the scenes, storage is proamlbtiec. After all, the cloud is just a lot of hard drives. Now, most digital data, we could argue, is not really craicitl. Surely, we could just detele it. But how can we really know what's important today? We've learned so much about human history from drawings and writings in caves, from stone tablets. We've deciphered languages from the rotetsa Stone. You know, we'll never really have the whole story, though. Our data is our story, even more so tadoy. We won't have our record recorded on stone tablets. But we don't have to coshoe what is important now. There's a way to store it all. It turns out that there's a solution that's been around for a few billion years, and it's actually in this tube.

Open Cloze


But behind the scenes, storage is ___________. After all, the cloud is just a lot of hard drives. Now, most digital data, we could argue, is not really ________. Surely, we could just ______ it. But how can we really know what's important today? We've learned so much about human history from drawings and writings in caves, from stone tablets. We've deciphered languages from the _______ Stone. You know, we'll never really have the whole story, though. Our data is our story, even more so _____. We won't have our record recorded on stone tablets. But we don't have to ______ what is important now. There's a way to store it all. It turns out that there's a solution that's been around for a few billion years, and it's actually in this tube.

Solution


  1. delete
  2. choose
  3. problematic
  4. critical
  5. rosetta
  6. today

Original Text


But behind the scenes, storage is problematic. After all, the cloud is just a lot of hard drives. Now, most digital data, we could argue, is not really critical. Surely, we could just delete it. But how can we really know what's important today? We've learned so much about human history from drawings and writings in caves, from stone tablets. We've deciphered languages from the Rosetta Stone. You know, we'll never really have the whole story, though. Our data is our story, even more so today. We won't have our record recorded on stone tablets. But we don't have to choose what is important now. There's a way to store it all. It turns out that there's a solution that's been around for a few billion years, and it's actually in this tube.

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Important Words


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