Read in today's Boston Globe article Big-data crunching hits the fast lane in Holyoke a hilarious quote:
"The fastest way to get a large puddle of data from New York to LA is
called the sneakernet,” Brown said. “You get a graduate student, you buy
him a bus ticket, and you send it that way”
All this talk of changing the world with big data and analytics and we transfer 1TB data (forget petabytes and zettabytes of big data) using stone-age methods.
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