“The Watershed. Computer scientists all over the world knew it was coming, and they watched for it. It happened in July of 1969. The information-handling capacity of all the computers in the world exceeded the information-handling capacity of all the human brains in the world. Computers could receive and store more information than the 3.5 billion human brains in the world.”
Wonder how much data would modern computers possess. Tonight I read that the company which did the digitisation of The X Files had to deal with 18 TB of data per episode (and they scanned the 35 mm film in just 1080p resolution). That was back in 2015 so it’s mind boggling what even more data intensive institutions (e.g., NASA) would be handling today.
