Such a situation did happen, Randall answered how many punch cards it would take to store all of the data in google datacenters (https://what-if.xkcd.com/63/ ht

Such a situation did happen, Randall answered how many punch cards it would take to store all of the data in google datacenters (https://what-if.xkcd.com/63/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/63/). In response, google sent him punch cards (http://blog.ted.com/using-serious-math-to-answer-weird-questions-randall-munroe-at-ted2014/ http://blog.ted.com/using-serious-math-to-answer-weird-quest...).