2020/08/11

Digital Content on Track to Equal Half Earth’s Mass by 2245

● 11/08/2020
“It would be approximately 130 years until the power needed to sustain digital information creation would equal all the power currently produced on planet Earth, and by 2245, half of Earth’s mass would be converted to digital information mass.”
– American Institute of Physics researchers, on the redistribution of Earth’s matter from physical atoms to digital data—“the fifth state of matter, alongside liquid, solid, gas and plasma”
Phys.org
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