I feel this is apropos to this discussion: https://www.sciencealert.com/expert-proposes-a-method-for-telling-if-we-all-... We'll need many more SI units to describe the information capacity of the Universe: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0064475 "We determined that each particle in the observable universe contains 1.509 bits of information and there are ∼6 × 10^80 bits of information stored in all the matter particles of the observable universe." On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 08:37:11PM -0500, Joel via WLUG wrote:

By the time we get to Quettabyte would we even remember what the 1990's files were and be able to open them and use them?

"and back then grandpa stored files on his local computer thing....Just another old time thing like getting news printed onto dead and trees ."

On November 22, 2022 5:22:43 PM Tim Keller via WLUG wrote:

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I hope all wlug members have a fantastic Thanksgiving.

While you're wondering about what to talk about, they've just introduced some new data measurements. The largest being a quettabyte.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03747-9

I wonder what filesystem you'd even use to manage a quettabyte? We'll have to fork zfs into qfs and make it a 1024 bit file system.

Later, Tim.