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Oh goodness gracious no, if you're going to measure in linear bit-years it isn't even remotely close. It's hard drives, because the amount of bits stored on hard drives is just so staggeringly enormous it dwarfs the faint traces of fragments of bits and pieces of the ancient world that we've managed to barely save. Orders and orders of magnitude off, even if you decide to count things like raw scans of the ancient stuff as opposed to merely the bits of information in the text and the other handful of useful details like the carbon dating.

You need to do some sort of correction that nonlinearly accounts for lasting more than a few years.



Exactly. A 2TB hard drive that is filled and only lasts one hour has a comparable bits/year ratio as 32KB that lasts 7000 years.




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