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Hey, Michael here, and this strawberry weighs about 50 grams, which, according to Russell Sites, also happens to be the weight of the entire internet. But what does that mean? I mean, the internet’s a gigantic place, and how do you measure information? Well, let’s start a little bit smaller, with a Kindle. Right now, I’m reading Gadsby, which is a great novel which makes complete sense, except it was written without ever using the letter ‘e’, which is awesome. But when I put Gadsby on my Kindle, did my Kindle gain weight? Well, theoretically, yes it did. Information is stored on flash drives, like this, and on my Kindle in binary, and that binary physically exists because electrons charge floating gate transistors, and the thing about electrons is that they have mass. In fact, a professor at Burkley estimated that when a Kindle is completely full of books, that its weight increases by about 10 to the negative 18th grams. That number is mind-blowignly miniscule.