Will the metric system fail us?

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?