Neuropsychological constraints to human data production on a global scale

@article{Gros2011NeuropsychologicalCT,
  title={Neuropsychological constraints to human data production on a global scale},
  author={Claudius Gros and Gregor Kaczor and Dimitrije Markovi{\'c}},
  journal={The European Physical Journal B},
  year={2011},
  volume={85},
  pages={1-5}
}
Abstract Which are the factors underlying human information production on a global level? In order to gain an insight into this question we study a corpus of 252–633 mil. publicly available data files on the Internet corresponding to an overall storage volume of 284–675 Terabytes. Analyzing the file size distribution for several distinct data types we find indications that the neuropsychological capacity of the human brain to process and record information may constitute the dominant limiting… Expand
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