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Dr. Melvin Vopson 'The environmental weight of data'

World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern

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The Information Catastrophe

At the moment, we use thousands of atoms per bit. Where is going to go that information and how we are going to mitigate this? I call this information singularity, the information catastrophe. We are going to run out of power in about 100 years. If my principle is correct, half the mass of the planet will be made up of digital bits.

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