If You Stacked All The World’s Data on CDs

According to a bunch of people with a crapload of time on their hands, if you put all the data in the world on CDs and stacked them, it would reach beyond the moon.

How much information is there in the world? Enough that, if we put all the information we have on Earth on CD-ROMs, that stack of CDs would reach beyond the moon. That’s according to a team of scientists who published the first-ever inventory of the world’s capacity to store, communicate, and compute information – including numbers, sentences, images, and texts.

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