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giancarlostoroyesterday at 2:59 PM1 replyview on HN

> Extrapolating that trend, we would be at about 87 GB worth of data today.

Throw in YouTube Shorts / TikTok etc and it makes me wonder if that estimate is drastically too low. We went from the information age, to the brainrot overload age, to let's both have brainrot and let computers think for us.


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lowdudeyesterday at 3:19 PM

If that trend really wants to measure the quality of video etc. as well, it would definitely be way more. But that assumption seems very flawed to me, e.g. watching a full 4K movie would amount to way more data than scrolling through memes, even though the latter is way more of an attention-stealing activity.

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