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doubled the amount present in 2001, adding around 23 “exabytes”
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Universe Size Comparison | Cosmic Eye (Original HD)
youtu.beEach unit is within 4-8x apart from each other; each group is ~7,000x apart.
Micro units
The Quantum (50 picoseconds) — the time for light through a hair;
The Atom (500 nanoseconds) — the time for light to travel a pen;
The Hertz (4 milliseconds) — a single violin string oscillation for a high C;
The Frame (25 milliseconds) — a single shot at 40 fps;
The
by the end of 2019 AMD released its Epyc CPU with 39.5 billion transistors.[84] This means that between 1971 and 2019 microprocessor power increased by seven orders of magnitude—17.1 billion times, to be exact.
Vaclav Smil • How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
This involves, first, understanding powers of ten; second, visualizing data over a wide range of magnitudes on graphs using logarithmic scales; and third, appreciating the meaning of magnitude scales, such as the decibel (dB) scale for the loudness of sounds and the Richter scale for the strength of earthquakes.
David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter
the equivalent of 140,000 Library of Congress collections.1 Growth
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Kyle Samani • $100 Trillion
quantify that last statement. Several of us—analysts of events—were transfixed by the magnitude of the new