What is the true weight of the Internet?

How much does the Internet weigh? It depends on who you ask. According to one calculation, the information that comprises the Internet weighs little more than a single grain of salt. Other estimates put it at closer to the weight of a strawberry. How does one even go about calculating the weight of the Internet? Simple: you weigh the electrons that it uses to move information. Every website, blog post, meme, torrent, picture and email you ever created or consumed via the Internet was transmitted via electrons. Add all those electrons up (at 9.1 x 10-31 kg apiece), and you get about 2 ounces. So why should you care that the Internet weighs next to nothing? Well, strictly speaking, you shouldn't — because as NPR's Robert Krulwich points out, the true weight of the Internet is measured not by electrons, but by ideas: more at link

Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel says science fiction has "collapsed:"

"One way you can describe the collapse of the idea of the future is the collapse of science fiction. Now it's either about technology that doesn't work or about technology that's used in bad ways. The anthology of the top twenty-five sci-fi stories in 1970 was, like, ‘Me and my friend the robot went for a walk on the moon,' and in 2008 it was, like, ‘The galaxy is run by a fundamentalist Islamic confederacy, and there are people who are hunting planets and killing them for fun.'"

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