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A gigabyte once cost half a million dollars

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Your phone currently holds 256 gigabytes of blurry concert photos and unused food delivery apps, which would have made you a billionaire hardware baron in 1980. Data used to be so expensive that writing inefficient code was practically a financial crime. Today, we casually download 50-gigabyte video games just to let them sit unplayed in our digital libraries forever.

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