The internet (or, to be more accurate, the way the internet and the world-wide web work together) is widely hailed as the most important invention of the current age. Along with spoken language, agriculture, and perhaps the scientific method, the internet may be one of the greatest inventions in human history. That said, it may…
INTERNET OF THINGS (IoT)
18th September 2019Arctic Burn
19th August 2019Recent news on the environmental front has not been promising. The Arctic Circle is burning, ravaged by wildfires—Siberia, Canada, and Alaska are all experiencing record fire seasons. Low precipitation and record high temperatures are intensifying the fires, and causing other areas to melt at an unprecedented rate. Summer fires, most often started by lightning strikes,…
Molecular Computer Memory
17th July 2019Our global data storage needs continue to increase at an astounding rate. The International Data Corporation, a market intelligence group based in China, estimates that 44 zettabytes—that is 44 trillion gigabytes—of stored data will exist by 2020, which is an eleven-fold increase from the four zettabytes held in 2013. Another estimate holds that by 2040…