Imagine if all the world’s data was still stored on punch cards: we’d be drowning in cardboard. But just how much exactly? Fortunately, XKCD’s Randall Munroe has taken a stab at working that out. He ...
If everyone had to rely on flash memory—the data-storage system used in memory cards and thumb drives—the amount of information that the world is estimated to produce by 2040 would exceed the planet’s ...