lolcat approves. Of what? Who knows.
A recent research project has followed 60 analog and digital technologies during the period from 1986 to 2007 in order to track “the world’s technological capacity to store, communicate, and compute information.”
The research article was published in yesterday’s issue of Science magazine and among other things it has found that “in 2007, humankind was able to store 2.9 × 1020 optimally compressed bytes, communicate almost 2 × 1021 bytes, and carry out 6.4 × 1018 instructions per second on general-purpose computers.”
To put those numbers in perspective, 6.4 × 1018 instructions per second is roughly what 500 Sarah Palin brains one human brain is capable of, while our total storage capacity (2.9 × 1020) is the same as an adult human’s DNA.
