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Digital Information Threatens to Consume The Planet’s Mass, Physicist Claims – ScienceAlert
The world could be headed for an ‘information catastrophe’ as the rate of production of digital bits continues to accelerate with no sign of stopping, new research suggests.
The world could be headed for an ‘information catastrophe’ as the rate of production of digital bits continues to accelerate with no sign of stopping, new research suggests.
In a new study one firmly positioned in the more abstract quarters of theoretical physics, it must be said researcher Melvin Vopson from the University of Portsmouth in the UK predicts that our ever-increasing virtual stockpiles of digital information could have dramatic, unforeseen consequences for matter on the planet.
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