Limits
The limits of data storage depend on the technology to write and read such data. For example, an 8"x10" 300dpi 8-bit greyscale image map contains 7.2 megabytes of data—assuming a scanner can accurately reproduce the printed image to that resolution and color depth, and a program can accurately interpret such an image. A similarly sized image in 2400dpi 24-bit true color theoretically contains 1.38 gigabytes of information.
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“I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extra-vagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limits of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)