Could we replace data centers with … plant DNA? | Cliff Kapono and Keolu Fox

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🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Is it possible to meet the world's seemingly infinite demand for data storage while also caring for the natural environment? Biomedical researcher Keolu Fox and professional surfer and scientist Cliff Kapono believe that Indigenous knowledge combined with the science of genetics may offer such a solution: using the DNA of plant cells (like those found in sugar cane) as mini data warehouses. Learn more about the incredible potential of this technology — and how it could help foster ecosystem resilience in a high-tech world.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	You're listening to Ted Talks daily,
0:11.0	where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
0:14.6	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:16.7	I'm not sure the last time we had a couple of surfers take the TED stage, but Cliff
0:20.9	Capono and Kiolu Fox brought so much life, knowledge, and love for the land and
0:26.8	waters where they spent so much of their time that I hope they're only the start of a wave of
0:31.5	surfer speakers to come. In their 2024 talk the
0:35.2	scientists introduced us to a solution to data storage that is rooted in the
0:39.9	indigenous community of Hawaii. Please note that this episode contains some mature language.
0:46.0	It's coming up after the break.
0:50.0	And now our TED Talk of the Day.
0:53.4	So people are pretty surprised and I tell them I know the world's first
0:56.8	native Hawaiian genome scientists,
0:59.7	not because of all the texts he sends me about genome editing and DNA research but
1:06.3	mostly because they're dominated by cat memes. Oh brother you know there's plenty surfing in there too.
1:14.0	That's true, those take up their own folder.
1:17.0	There's something you should know about Cliff and I.
1:20.0	We've known each other forever, and we spend way too much time staring at our phones looking at surf videos.
1:27.0	He's one of those screen time people, you know, Face Time only, won't answer the phone unless he's giving us face-to-face.
1:34.3	And if he is texting me, he's asking me to send him updates
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