TechEcho

If you have questions about the technical details of the project, I'd be happy to try answering them. It's been fun to use this retro tech in a really impractical way, and being able to see individual bits of data is neat.<p>I'll also be live streaming the printing off and on: <a href="http://twitch.tv/mattbierner" rel="nofollow">http://twitch.tv/mattbierner</a>

I'm really interested in the amount of paper this art project will use, and how much it'll weigh. He says " a cumulative length of some 5000 miles" but doesn't specify the paper so I can't calculate how many trees went into this. I'm not an extreme ecological conservationist, but this does come across as a huge waste for no real purpose.

I don't understand why he's not encoding information into the odd labelled columns. It really takes away from the project.

This is unbelievably wasteful and uninteresting.

Seeing the piles of accumulated paper tape does actually illustrate an interesting question: How exactly is 3.2 billion base pairs of DNA folded up in a human cell?

"For the past week, I’ve been holed up"<p>I see what you did there :)

I don't understand why he's not encoding information into the odd labelled columns. It really takes away from the project.

This is unbelievably wasteful and uninteresting.

Seeing the piles of accumulated paper tape does actually illustrate an interesting question: How exactly is 3.2 billion base pairs of DNA folded up in a human cell?

"For the past week, I’ve been holed up"<p>I see what you did there :)

Printing the human genome on punched tape

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Printing the human genome on punched tape

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