As ones and zeros compound into kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, and terabytes, stored in devices that become smaller and smaller, we have a gauge for what it feels like to grow our digital footprints.
As millions, then hundreds of millions, then billions of people upload photos and videos and text, the expansion of digital information really feels like something, reaches into our deepest sense of who we are and how the world works.
Just as with the measured scaling up from atoms to molecules to bacteria to organ systems to bodies to communities to earth to solar system to galaxy… global digital accumulation gives us access to contemplation of ever more orders of magnitude.