The linked GigaOm article may include some scientific tongue-in-cheek but the gap described is real. Currently ~an exebyte of data is generated daily. The metric system only has two official larger orders of magnitude: Zettabyte – 1000000000000000000000 Yottabyte – 1000000000000000000000000 For most of us this isn’t a problem. I keep terabytes of storage… Continue reading Will the metric system fail us?