Food for Thought Posted: 5/19/2009

Bit=0 or 1

Nibble=4 Bit

Byte=8 Bit

Kilobyte=1024 Bytes

Megabyte=1024 Kilobytes

Gigabyte=1024 Megabytes

Terabyte=1024 Gigabytes

Petabyte=1024 Terabytes

Exabyte=1024 Petabytes

Zettabyte=1024 Exabytes

Yottabyte=1024 Zettabytes

Xonabyte=1024 Yottabytes

Wekabyte=1024 Xonabytes

Yundabyte=1024 Wekabytes

Udabyte=1024 Yundabytes

Tredabyte=1024 Udabytes

Sortabyte=1024 Tredabytes

Rintabyte=1024 Sortabytes

Quexabyte=1024 Rintabytes

Peptabyte=1024 Quexabytes

Ochabyte=1024 Peptabytes

Nenabyte=1024 Ochabytes

Mingabyte=1024 Nenabytes

Lumabyte=1024 Mingabytes

We are currently in transtition from the era of Gigabytes to Terrabytes. Already, there are predictions that by next year there will be a Zettabyte of information on the Net. Assuming Moore's Law remains true, what will we be capable of in a era of Udabytes, and how soon will that be?  Keep in mind at this early juncture we've already got enough storage to store a entire human genome.  Its also worth noting that I entered high school in the era of Megabytes and by the time I had graduated we were firmly in the realm of Gigabytes.  Over my stay in Maine I read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Internet demigod Cory Doctrow (I highly reccomend it, by the way).  Perhaps we aren't quite as far away from a world of complete mental backups and digitally imparted imortality.