Exabytes

Coins and cash are giving way
To the more greatly ancient
And even more fungible
Currency of attention.

You can’t wire up human brains
Into your machine of slaves
Without their locked attention.
Once you have it; you rule them.

A complete mouse connectome
Would require two exabytes,
The estimated data
Footprint of all books ever.

Extrapolate the power
Of harnessing the billions
Of exabytes through eyeballs.
What on Earth could wield those reins?

I love it when I can kick
Something into Google and
My search returns no results,
My driver thus stumped again.