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peterkelly on July 27, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Messages in the Deep – The Story of the Underwater...

> and each day route a quantity of data equivalent to several hundred US Libraries of Congress

I think it's about time we introduced a new unit of measurement for data

mgkimsal on July 27, 2014 [–]

It's also been a changing target. "Size of the library of Congress" in 1996 is not what it was in 2012, for example - the comparison doesn't carry well over time.

Football stadium of encyclopedias?

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