Here is a link to some hp lab stuff, the wording used is the same as a lot of poets wording, and also the picture is familiar but I can't find it again, though i saw it on poets web site somewhere. anyway, They talk about universal memory and storage, as well as orders of magnitude. Maybe just to much coffee.
http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/systems_research.html
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