What stores 100,000 terabytes of data per gram?
Guess. Go ahead, guess. I'll wait.
Answer here, along with an exhilarating look at what might happen as Big Data meets medicine.
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It's not online yet, but the latest BusinessWeek has the counter article to this. It's about how doctors still use fax machines. So, big data is nice, but getting the medical community to use it is another matter. They don't even like small data - patients talking to them.
Posted by: Ted Craig | June 26, 2012 at 08:46 AM
Definitely not my first guess.
Posted by: Ken | June 26, 2012 at 09:51 AM