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Mankind's capacity to store the colossal amount of information in the world has been measured by scientists.
The study, published in the journal Science, calculates the amount of data stored in the world by 2007 as 295 exabytes.
That comes out to 295 billion gigabytes. That's a lot of info, but take out the porn, politics, and stories about Lindsey Lohan, and what's left is actually downloadable. In fact, you can fit it on a memory stick. :mrgreen:
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