#2 Reference Facts:
“Prediction: The cost for 128 kilobytes of memory will fall below U$100 in the near future.” Creative Computing magazine December 1981, page 6
Using current 1 terabyte drives, it would take ~ 1 million data centers (completely covering Delaware and Rhode Island) to store a Yottabyte. However, if switched to the densest currently available consumer media (200GB memory cards) it would take up less space than an Egyptian pyramid.
5 Exabytes: All words ever spoken by human beings
- Global annual IP traffic will equal ~ 1 zettabyte by end of 2016