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non-stop, around the clock, it would take 100 years before the process was com-
pleted. If we imagine that the information in DNA were put in the form of a
book, then, these books put on top of each other would reach 70 meters high.
Let us repeat these two words just mentioned above; 'contain information'…
We should stop here and consider these two words which we pronounce so
simply. It is simple to say that a cell contains billions of pieces of information.
Yet, this is far away from being a detail that can be casually dropped as a
remark. This is because what we talk about here is not a computer or a library,
but just a cube that is 100 times smaller than a millimeter, simply made up of
protein, fat and water molecules. It is an extremely amazing miracle for this
infinitesimal piece of flesh to contain and store even a single bit of information-
let alone millions of it.
In the modern era, people use computers to store information. The comput-
er technology is today considered as the most advanced technology that paves
the way to all other technologies. A body of information, which, 20 years ago,

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