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DNA could store all of the world's data in one room

Humanity has a data storage problem: More data were created in the past 2 years than in all of preceding history. And that torrent of information may soon outstrip the ability of hard drives to capture it. Now, researchers report that they’ve come up with a new way to encode digital data in DNA to create the highest-density large-scale data storage scheme ever invented. Capable of storing 215 petabytes (215 million gigabytes) in a single gram of DNA, the system could, in principle, store every bit of datum ever recorded by humans in a container about the size and weight of a couple of pickup trucks. But whether the technology takes off may depend on its cost.

More - http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/dna-could-store-all-worlds-data-one-room

Microsoft's DNA storage breakthrough could pave way for exabyte drives

Scientists develop a more efficient way to find and selectively retrieve files stored on DNA.

The prospect of storing vast amounts of data on DNA has come closer to reality thanks to a new technique for retrieving data.

Microsoft is keen on synthetic DNA as a future long-term archival medium that could solve the world's need for more data storage. Previous research has shown that just a few grams of DNA can store an exabyte of data and keep it intact for up to 2,000 years.

More - http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-dna-storage-breakthrough-could-pave-way-for-exabyte-drives


Any single number, letter, or symbol that you type = 1 Byte
1024 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
1024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
1024 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
1024 Petabyte = 1 Exabyte

There are other terms which are more accurate, but we'll just keep it simple here.

Examples of these sizes above are as follows -

1 KB
This entire paragraph below is equal to 1 Kilobyte -

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(I think there are 1024 characters there. You can count them if you like!)

1 page of text could be about 50 KB
1 jpeg picture could be about 500 KB; more megapixels = a greater size; a very good quality picture of a high resolution could be a few Megabytes
Have a look at any of the audio MP3s recorded by the clergy and notice the length of them and their file sizes
A few years ago, a film which has been copied to a computer would be about 700 MB, the same size as standard music CDs; a high-quality film could be about 1 GB, or a HD-quality film could be about 5 GB
Standard DVDs can hold about 4.7 GB
Single-layer bluray discs can hold about 25 GB; dual-layer bluray discs can hold 50 GB, and high-capacity ones can hold either 100 or 128 GB
Also have a look at the PDFs that we have, and see how much is in them and their sizes

1 Terabyte
1024 GB
About 2 years of non-stop MP3s
About 2 weeks of non-stop films (depending on their quality)

1 Petabyte
1024 TB
About 100 years of non-stop television

1 Exabyte
1024 PB

The entire estimated size of the internet is not easy to answer. New websites are being made all the time, and others are closing all the time. The surface internet is the tip of an iceberg; others are those such as intranets; extranets; and the 'deep web' or 'dark net', which are things search engines, such as google, don't index.

One way to answer this question is to consider the sum total of data held by all the big online storage and service companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook. Estimates are that the big four store at least 1,200 petabytes between them.

http://www.sciencefocus.com/qa/how-many-terabytes-data-are-internet

Every second, approximately 6,000 tweets are tweeted; more than 40,000 Google queries are searched; and more than 2 million emails are sent

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But these statistics only hint at the size of the Web. As of September 2014, there were 1 billion websites on the Internet, a number that fluctuates by the minute as sites go defunct and others are born. And beneath this constantly changing (but sort of quantifiable) Internet that's familiar to most people lies the "Deep Web," which includes things Google and other search engines don't index. Deep Web content can be as innocuous as the results of a search of an online database or as secretive as black-market forums accessible only to those with special Tor software. (Though Tor isn't only for illegal activity, it's used wherever people might have reason to go anonymous online.)

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In 2014, researchers published a study in the journal Supercomputing Frontiers and Innovations estimating the storage capacity of the Internet at 10^24 bytes, or 1 million exabytes.

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One way to estimate the communication capacity of the Internet is to measure the traffic moving through it. According to Cisco's Visual Networking Index initiative, the Internet is now in the "zettabyte era." A zettabyte equals 1 sextillion bytes, or 1,000 exabytes. By the end of 2016, global Internet traffic will reach 1.1 zettabytes per year, according to Cisco, and by 2019, global traffic is expected to hit 2 zettabytes per year.

One zettabyte is the equivalent of 36,000 years of high-definition video, which, in turn, is the equivalent of streaming Netflix's entire catalog 3,177 times,

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According to Cisco's research, 8,000 petabytes per month of IP traffic was dedicated to video in 2015, compared with about 3,000 petabytes per month for Web, email and data transfer. (A petabyte is a million gigabytes or 2^50 bytes.) All told, the company estimated that video accounted for most Internet traffic that year, at 34,000 petabytes. File sharing came in second, at 14,000 petabytes.

Hilbert and his colleagues took their own stab at visualizing the world's information. In their 2011 Science paper, they calculated that the information capacity of the world's analog and digital storage was 295 optimally compressed exabytes. To store 295 exabytes on CD-ROMS would require a stack of discs reaching to the moon (238,900 miles, or 384,400 kilometers), and then a quarter of the distance from the Earth to the moon again, the researchers wrote. That's a total distance of 298,625 miles (480,590 km). By 2007, 94 percent of information was digital, meaning that the world's digital information alone would overshoot the moon if stored on CD-ROM. It would stretch 280,707.5 miles (451,755 km).

While world storage capacity doubles every three years, world computing capacity doubles every year and a half, Hilbert said. In 2011, humanity could carry out 6.4 x 10^18 instructions per second with all of its computers — similar to the number of nerve impulses per second in the human brain. Five years later, computational power is up in the ballpark of about eight human brains. That doesn't mean, of course, that eight people in a room could outthink the world's computers. In many ways, artificial intelligence already outperforms human cognitive capacity (though A.I. is still far from mimicking general, humanlike intelligence). Online, artificial intelligence determines which Facebook posts you see, what comes up in a Google search and even 80 percent of stock market transactions. The expansion of computing power is the only thing making the explosion of data online useful, Hilbert said.

"We're going from an information age to a knowledge age," he said.

https://www.livescience.com/54094-how-big-is-the-internet.html

just a few grams of DNA can store an exabyte of data and keep it intact for up to 2,000 years.

Where are you going to get your microchip from?

Here is the jew talking to you -
We are the Borg. You will be assimilated.

Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us.

Resistance is futile.