Re:The Internet Weighs About as Much as a Strawberry
by swombat on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @08:11PM
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Think of what the world will look like when society (if it can still be called that at that point) truly becomes "information-based", in the sense that the weight of the information we exchange becomes larger than the biomass of the human race.
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Re:The Internet Weighs About as Much as a Strawberry
by kiba on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @08:33PM
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Will the world be larger than planet earth? What about a Matrioshka_brain?
I think we're already building a jupiter computer. First, we're laying our computing infrastructure on the surface of the earth. As time goes on, our computational infrastructure increase in density and in efficiency. Eventually, we figure out an unimaginable economic reason for building even more computers, which increase our motivation. Thus planet earth is geoengineered into a vast Jupiter brain.
Re:The Internet Weighs About as Much as a Strawberry
by sukuriant on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @08:18PM
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Given the steady increase in population, I suspect those two lines, while going in the same direction (deeper into quadrant 2 of an x/y graph), are divergent; and, given the number of people on the planet when the internet was created, they never intersected.*
* yes, I understand that mathematically the two functions likely intersect at some point; however, the function for the mass of the internet and the function of the mass of the human race are meaningless that far in the past.