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Dan Rottenberg's avatar

From reader Terry McDaniel:

The reason one hard drive could hold all of your books and other print material is that the data storage density (digital bits per unit of disk surface area) increased by greater than a factor of about 1 billion over the life span of that technology from its invention by IBM in 1956 up to a few years ago. That's the famous 'Moore's law' (exponential growth) as it has translated to disk drives.

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This week's feature short story in the New Yorker is by Lore Segal.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/18/on-the-agenda-fiction-lore-segal

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