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Media Darwinism 媒介皆进化 ›

Storage Evolved 存储进化论

Every 72 minutes, 1 petabyte, or 100,00 GB, of data is processed by the servers of Google, a company aims at organizing the world's information. Human progress is always made along with the advancement of tools. In thirty years, will we be able to consume all the feeds, thanks to the nearly unlimited storage? Yeah, we know that 640K statement was a misquotion. Whatever.

1981年，比尔·盖茨预言每个人只需要 640k 的存储能力。但今天，试图整合人类全部信息的谷歌的服务器每72分钟要处理大约十亿兆(perabyte)的数据。人类的进化永远是与工具的进步相伴而行。再过 30 年，这世界的存储能力或将接近无限，人类消化信息的能力呢？