Yeah, at least some good theories on how a yottabyte storage system (10^24 bytes, or a trillion of your stinkin' external Time Machine drive) might actually be

Yeah, at least some good theories on how a yottabyte storage system (10^24 bytes, or a trillion of your stinkin' external Time Machine drive) might actually be implemented would be welcome (particularly within the physical confines of the Bluffdale site). That would for sure be a good hack! With civilian uses, even. As of 2011, the internet's monthly traffic[1] amounted to about 27.5 petabytes per month, or about 2.6e-5 yottabytes. A yottabyte would be about 3300 years of 2011 traffic. What we are seeing is the recurrence of Admiral Poindexter's vision of Total Information Awareness[2]. It got shot down last time around, but not with sufficient finality. That's what the "three days straight" is about. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_traffic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_traffic [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office