Month: August 2026
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Our Send-a-Fax-from-the-Beach Party (part 1)
Most of the time we’ve found ourselves as accidental Future distributors. It’s just been a side effect of what we enjoy doing. But in 1993, inspired by AT&T’s You Will ads and the confluence of various technologies, we intentionally and literally distributed the Future, to friends and family. The You Will ads weren’t just our…
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More Zettabytes
The previous “You Heard it Here First” post included a number of orders of magnitude approximations, especially in regards to zettabytes and the human connectome. To be a bit more accurate, all the world’s digital data is actually estimated to be around 200 zettabytes (a fifth of a yottabyte!). That compares to “only” 1-2 zettabytes…
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You Heard it Here First
Zettabyte. A thousand exabytes. A million petabytes. A billion terabytes . 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. Or maybe it’s 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 bytes, depending how you count.* Regardless, it’s a lot of bytes. You’ve likely heard of a terabyte, which is about the size of a computer’s disk these days, or a high-end phone’s memory. But where did these peta-,…
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