Blog - Human Brain Is Limiting Global Data Growth, Say Computer Scientists

Blog - Human Brain Is Limiting Global Data Growth, Say Computer Scientists: When two parameters are involved, the relationship between the stimuli and perception is the square of the logarithm. An example would be video in which images change with time...
These guys measured the type and size of files pointed to by every outward link from Wikipedia and the open directory project, dmoz.org...
Sure enough, they discovered that the audio and video file distribution followed a log-normal curve, which is compatible with a logarithmic squared-type relationship. By contrast, image files follow a power law distribution, which is compatible with a logarithmic relationship...

...it'll be interesting to see how machine intelligence might change this equation. It may be that machines can be designed to distort our relationship with information.
If so, then a careful measure of file size distribution could reveal the first signs that intelligent machines are among us!