Re: beyond _tera_[Fwd: dozenal and hexadecimal digits]

Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:

> If things grow like they have, I may actually get to see a computer
> system managing a zottabyte of data before I retire in about 25 years.
I once read a brief squib (in Datamation, perhaps?) about the possibilities
of yottabit/sec networking.  It would require fiber-optic cables about 12 m
(almost 40 feet) in diameter, which could be laid along disused railway tracks.
Yottabit router chips will have to have more active states than they have
atoms, so presumably the bits will be stored in some quantum form, presumably
as electron orbitals.

There were more details, which I now forget.

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