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Digital data could overtake Earth’s actual atoms, physicist says – MENAFN.COM
August 14 (CNET) – As I write this, the precious metals and fossil fuels used to create and power the server farms and other infrastructure that will eventually blast these words onto your retinas are being converted to information. Eventually all those digit…
(MENAFN – NewsIn.Asia) August 14 (CNET) – As I write this, the precious metals and fossil fuels used to create and power the server farms and other infrastructure that will eventually blast these words onto your retinas are being converted to information. Eventually all those digital bits will actually outnumber all the atoms on Earth, according to one theoretical physicist.
“We are literally changing the planet bit by bit and it is an invisible crisis,” Melvin Vopson, who lectures at the Unive…
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