The Third Reich and microphones

I was thinking about this just the other day: How many things would I tote around every day if I had a physical copy of every CD, book, etc with me instead of the digital copy I carry aroun dGadget lovers are so hungry for digital data many are carrying the equivalent of 10 trucks full of paper in “weight”.Music, images, e-mails, and texts are being hoarded on mobiles, cameras laptops and PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), a Toshiba study found.It found that more than 60% kept 1,000 to 2,000 music files on their devices, making the UK “digitally fat”.”Virtual weight” measurements are based on research by California Institute of Technology professor Roy Williams.He calculated physical comparisons for digital data in the mid-1990s. He worked out that one gigabyte (1,073,741,824 bytes) was the equivalent of a pick-up truck filled with paper.

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