What is the next plausible unit (or the prefix of it) to be used, when measuring the capacity of storage mediums. 1 TB is a standard today even in commercial HDD. I can not imagine the situation (due to exponential growth of capacity, which goes step by step together with the advancement of technology) in 10 or even 100 years.
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An add on to this question would be the supposed storage capacity of human brain, estimated to be around 2,5 petabytes.I'm a physician, but find this comparison such a ROUGH estimation, to be actually worthless. What would be a more "down to earth" unit to be used in Your opinion. Though this should be "my" field, to be honest, I actually haven't thought about that for a second.
But anyway, it seems, that even now bytes or bits are becoming somewhat obsolete in some areas as units for measurement of capacity. To get to the question: What would be the best replacement, when thinking with a logic, that was used in measuring distances in space? Namely instead of using kilometres, light years are much more easy to grasp and a more "elegant" solution.
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