r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Uguero • 17d ago

of a storage unit

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In 1956, IBM shipped a 5MB hard drive... and it weighed over a ton. Yep, just 5 megabytes required a forklift and a cargo plane. Today, that's not even one iPhone photo.

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u/Balbar0 17d ago

Then: ⬆️
Now:

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u/AdventuresofBumpo 17d ago

Just imagine AI in this context, we’re so fucking cooked

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u/kilobyte2696 16d ago

what need is there to bring ai into this? why cant we just talk about the wonders of modern electronic data storage

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u/Ok_Support3 16d ago

Has AI become the new politics?