Is Big Data Getting Too Big?

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Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think - Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier
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Sources:
DNA Storage: http://cen.acs.org/articles/93/i35/Sc...

Square kilometer array (and other data scales): http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/...

How much data does ___ store? http://techexpectations.org/2015/03/2...


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