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World’s Total Computational Power = One Human

by mstachowiak on 7/7/12, 5:29 PM with 5 comments

• by cjbprime on 7/8/12, 4:10 AM

  > Equally intriguing, the total world-wide storage capacity is roughly the same as a single adult human’s DNA.

  No.

    wget ftp://ftp-trace.ncbi.nih.gov/1000genomes/ftp/technical/reference/human_g1k_v37.fasta.gz
    ...
    ==> RETR human_g1k_v37.fasta.gz ... done.
    Length: 892331003 (851M)
                       ^^^^

• by christiangenco on 7/7/12, 7:45 PM

  And so it begins (or continues, rather): you've got 45 years to come to terms with your laptop being smarter than you are.

• by its_so_on on 7/7/12, 7:54 PM

  Hey, you found me.