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Professor @Wharton studying innovation & entrepreneurship & ephemera. Democratizing business education through games (Play: https://interactive.wharton.upenn.edu/experiences/bluesky-ventures-game/ …) Book on 🦄s

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    1. Ethan Mollick‏Verified account @emollick Mar 15

      A tweet is about 1kb of memory*. All of the pictured things can store one tweet: Two Babbage Analytical Engines 37 punch cards A Russian woven electronic core memory module This hard drive built inside Minecraft *280 characters of up to 4 eight byte octets each in UTF-8.pic.twitter.com/PdYqV9A48l

      12 replies 474 retweets 1,443 likes
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    2. Ethan Mollick‏Verified account @emollick Mar 16

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      For reference, the Apollo Guidance Computer, which got humans to the moon, did so with an amount of memory equivalent to 8 tweets.https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1340398272725311492 …

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      Ethan MollickVerified account @emollick
      Moore’s Law in action🚀: The Apollo Guidance Computer, which took us to the moon, compared to a Anker USB-C charger: The charger has 48x the clock speed & 1.8x more memory than the AGC! The space shuttle ran on 8086 chips, here’s the best shuttle sim/game that ran on that chip! pic.twitter.com/z24AWpZ0E1
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      Ethan Mollick‏Verified account @emollick Mar 16

      Scientists have also successfully built logic gates by using swarms of soldier crabs. It takes about 80 🦀 to operate a logic gate, and there are 8 logic gates in a byte, so 640,000 crabs can be used to store a single tweet. Which seems kind of horrifying. 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀pic.twitter.com/j7JlC1lsyu

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        2. Ethan Mollick‏Verified account @emollick Mar 16

          So a typical crab swarm like the one below has 100M crabs. If the 🦀 were used to operate logic gates, that would store 156 tweets. Horrible, horrible tweets.pic.twitter.com/g6FoU12sFa

          14 replies 133 retweets 1,309 likes
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        3. Ethan Mollick‏Verified account @emollick Mar 16

          There also exists a tournament-legal deck of Magic the Gathering cards that turns any Magic game into a Turing Complete computer, capable of reading and writing data. In this case, you can encode a tweet with around 512 creature tokens (of 16 types). https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.09828.pdf …pic.twitter.com/w562c01kNz

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        4. Ethan Mollick‏Verified account @emollick Mar 16

          Maybe the most efficient super weird encoding method so far: slime mold circuits! It would only take a 2.5 inch by 2.5 inch slime mold to hold a single tweet, and, as the paper concludes: they are "self-growing & self-repairing & can be incorporated into hybrid wetware" (shudder)pic.twitter.com/3PODGpRG4v

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        2. Zets (resuming normal cool zone)‏ @zetsuboce Mar 16
          Replying to @TofuKush @emollick

          crabto, if you will

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        1. Michael Petrick‏ @michaelrpetrick Mar 16
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          CC @aptshadow

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        2. Ian Pottmeyer‏ @Tonamel Mar 16
          Replying to @emollick

          I've heard people say Twitter is Cancer, but I didn't think it was so literal.

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        2. Peter Chase‏ @ptrchas3 Mar 16
          Replying to @emollick

          “640 Kcrab ought to be enough for any tweet” —Ball Gates

          2 replies 19 retweets 383 likes
        3. Ethan Mollick‏Verified account @emollick Mar 16
          Replying to @ptrchas3

          The best response. But it really should have been Krill Gates

          1 reply 5 retweets 226 likes
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