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So, per person on the planet, that would be 10^24 / 7*10^9 ... lets say on order of say 10^14 or 100 Terabytes, or 25,000 DVDs worth of storage.. for each man w
by gridmaths 13y ago
So, per person on the planet, that would be 10^24 / 7*10^9 ... lets say on order of say 10^14 or 100 Terabytes, or 25,000 DVDs worth of storage.. for each man woman and child.
That would be enough to store a few years of everyones life in considerable detail : videos, photos, phone audio, GPS, financials, dna, web surfing, ...
You would probably need to take the complete visual and audio stream that went into a persons eyes and ears over the course of a year of their life, to start to fill that up, and do that for every living person.
I just wonder how much of that data they really need to sift through, in order to find likely terrorists ?
- gridmaths 13y agoThis is a back-of-the envelope, rather than a serious analysis, but perhaps it gives some idea of the scale?
- ihsw 13y agoThe amount of data produced per person and the amount of data storage capabilities are increased on a regular basis (annual?) as well. Finding terrorists is a red herring, in this case it's all about mapping and measuring the movements of every person and device.