Continuing the thread of increasing computation capability, the following press release
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/IBM-Helps-Push-the-Boundaries-prnews-1613903861.html?x=0&.v=1
cites the prospect of managing information flows of an exabyte of data per day.
Just as mega and giga and even tera have become household prefixes thanks to computer performance, maybe peta and exa will also, due to data storage.
Randy
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