Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 5:32 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
The coordinates of each particle storing the information in that teaspoon of matter.Which is probably more data than any of us will keyboard in a lifetime. Hence my point.
My 1TB hard disk *already* contains more information than I could keyboard in my lifetime. The fact that it all got there is due to two things: (1) I didn't have to enter it all myself, and (2) most of it was auto-generated from other information, using compilers and other such tools. Our disk capacities are increasing exponentially, but so is the rate at which we have the ability to create information. I wouldn't be surprised if, at some point before the human race becomes extinct, we build computers whose operating system requires more than a teaspoonful of atoms to store. Especially if Microsoft still exists by then. :-) -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
