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Earth is talking but soon digital data will drown out its voice

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Here's an interesting article that highlights the Earth's natural signals -- cells that communicate to one another and organize to ensure their very survival. 

Scientists have figured out how to quantify that data, which is amazing by itself. And now they can compare it to the amount of digital signals created by the internet. It should be no shock that some are predicting the world's digital signals to outpace the natural world in less than a century. 

If there's anything I've learned about the digital world in the last 25 years or so it's that it WILL grow faster than we predict, often in ways we never expected. 

As all of Earth’s prokaryotes signal to each other, according to the authors’ estimate, they generate around a billion times as much data as our technology. But human progress is rapid: According to one estimate, the internet is growing by around 26 percent every year. Under the bold assumption that both these rates hold steady for decades to come, the authors stated its size will continue to balloon until it dwarfs the biosphere in around 90 years’ time, sometime in the early 22nd century.
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