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 ...

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 ...

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