Big data could soon be stored in a very small package: DNA. A team of scientists has demonstrated that storing information in synthetic DNA could represent a(n) 【小题1】approach to managing data in the long term, bumping aside the magnetic tape 【小题2】by archivists (档案管理员) today.

The approach, published online January 23 in Nature, relies on 【小题3】likely to become faster and cheaper, says biologist and engineer Drew Endy of Stanford University, who was not 【小题4】in the work.

Unlike record players, which are good only for playing music encoded on now-out-of-date vinyl discs (塑料唱片), machines that make and read DNA find 【小题5】throughout science and always will. “Human beings are never going to stop caring about DNA,” says Endy. DNA is also tiny, lightweight, and can potentially remain undamaged for thousands of years if 【小题6】in a dark, cool environment.

This new report comes on the heels of 【小题7】research published last August in Science. The new research projects that, if the costs of making DNA continue to drop, the approach might be 【小题8】for long-term storage in as little as 10 years. “It’s 【小题9】exciting,” Endy says.

In the next decade, the approach could store information that needs to last for at least 50 years, such as government records or library texts. And who knows where it will go,【小题10】 Goldman. Perhaps, he says, “when the cloud sucks things off your computer, it will be to store it as DNA.”

A patent is an official document 【小题1】(give)to an inventor by a government. This document 【小题2】(general) gives inventors the right to stop anyone else from copying, using or selling the invention without their permission.

Inventions are the result of hard work. It may only take a moment of inspiration to think of a good idea but it takes a lot of research and experimentation to turn it into a(n) 【小题3】(use)and working invention. So, inventors deserve a reward for the amount of time they spend 【小题4】(develop)their ideas. They also need the 【小题5】(secure) of knowing that if they share the invention with 【小题6】rest of the world, nobody will steal it, use it or copy it without their permission.

Patents also benefit the society 【小题7】 return for patent protection. Inventors agree 【小题8】(show)all the technical information about their invention. This information is available to everyone and has enough details 【小题9】can be used by people with basic knowledge to produce the invention. In this way, patents help to spread new knowledge, which can in turn help people find 【小题10】(solve)to different problems or to make further advances in science and technology.

Digital technology — email and smart phones especially — have vastly improved workers' ability to be productive outside of a traditional office. Even so, most white-collar work still happens in an office. One reason is that, according to findings of a new survey of office workers 【小题1】 by Wakefield Research for the IT company Citrix, most bosses are 【小题2】 about remote working. Half of the workers say their boss doesn't accept it and only 35 percent say it's 【小题3】.

Suspicious bosses will likely have their doubts reinforced (加深) by the same survey, which shows that 43 percent of workers say they've watched TV or a movie while “working” remotely, while 35 percent have done housework, and 28 percent have cooked dinner. If people find no one 【小题4】 him, he will become lazy and no pressure particularly in their own house where it is very comfortable place.

It is true, however，that working at home makes people much more 【小题5】, because it allows workers to take care of annoying housework while still getting their jobs done. It's much faster, for example, to shop for groceries at a quarter to three than to stand in line during the after-work【小题6】.

The fact that such practices remain officially unaccepted 【小题7】 how far we haven't come as a society from the days when we expected every full-time worker to be supported by a full-time homemaker.

More broadly the Wakefield survey suggests that employers may be 【小题8】 a low-cost way to give workers something of value. Sixty-four percent of those survey 【小题9】 who haven't worked 【小题10】 would rather give up some bonus in order to get even one day a week working from home. Under such circumstances, smart firms need to find ways to let their employees have enough flexibility to manage their time efficiently..