Lest we get too enamored with our technological prowess, however, the authors make some comparisons with biology. “To put our findings in perspective, the 6.4*1018 instructions per second that human kind can carry out on its general-purpose computers in 2007 are in the same ballpark area as the maximum number of nerve impulses executed by one human brain per second,” they write.
Our total storage capacity is the same as an adult human’s DNA. And there are several billion humans on the planet.
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Citation: “The World’s Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information.” Martin Hilbert and Priscila López. Science, 692-693, Feb. 11, 2011. DOI: 10.1126/science.1200970
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