;; How many years would it take to read five terabytes of plaintext?
;; Let's be *very* generous and assume that someone can read the entire
;; Odyssey in a day.

(let* ((a-big-reading-day
        ;; the odyseey is 693kb according to
        ;; https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1727
        (* 693 1024))
       (a-big-reading-year
        (* a-big-reading-day 365.25))
       (five-terabytes (* (expt 1024 4) 5)))
  ;; how many years would it take to read five terabytes
  ;; of plaintext if you could read an Odyssey a day?
  (exact->inexact (/ five-terabytes a-big-reading-year)))

;; => 21210.28
;;
;; That's longer than human civilization itself... certainly much longer
;; than writing has been around!
;;
;; contextpatrol: https://twitter.com/evanpro/status/955649901702107136