| Fall of the bit The bit was once ruling King Emperor to root controllers coders slaves to its proportion Run efficiently and cleanly ever so carefully avoiding crash to stay within bit dimensions Its cosmos was small hindering and it ruled with an iron rod ruining those who disregarded it Bit was restless in expanding counted into kilobytes Then the race for megabytes The age didn't settle arise the gigabyte incumbent to terabyte ascendancy Before falling prey to petabyte a continuous surging revolution held back on temporary physical restraint Roll on exabyte, zettabyte and yottabyte onwards in fractions of past time span The all empowering future Where information is harnessed on individuals versus the State a future beyond yottabyte Where a super-fast search is made using a supremely complex algorithm pulling up a single result On some distant networked planet perhaps another solar system linked on a complex wireless web The Soyuz replaced by Orion projects analogous to the once mighty bit eclipsed by environmentally cleaner energy Where power is consumed efficiently the waste product becoming harmless the future stuns science fiction As science pushes the frontiers just as the bit is a grain of sand in a post yottabyte world We are the grain of tomorrows world The seed stretching beyond imagination So too our world presently ahead |
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