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Quettabit means (computing) One nonillion (10³⁰) bits. SI symbol: Qb..
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/ˈkwɛtəˌbɪt/ · noun
(computing) One nonillion (10³⁰) bits. SI symbol: Qb..
Given the scales on which technology has operated in the first quarter of the 21st century, from lasers that flash for just a few attoseconds to the total amount of digital data in the world pushing past 160 zettabytes, it feels as if we may have let things lie for too long. I don't know if the future will have quettabit computer networks or rontometer-scale wormholes, but I'm pretty sure the large and small of it will be hella weird.
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Quettabit means (computing) One nonillion (10³⁰) bits. SI symbol: Qb..
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Given the scales on which technology has operated in the first quarter of the 21st century, from lasers that flash for just a few attoseconds to the total amount of digital data in the world pushing past 160 zettabytes, it feels as if we may have let things lie for too long. I don't know if the future will have quettabit computer networks or rontometer-scale wormholes, but I'm pretty sure the large and small of it will be hella weird.
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