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Well, I'm talking about the rate of increasing slowing.

Given the speed of light as an upper limit, in the very long run we can at most have a cubic growth, not an exponential growth. Something will have to give eventually.

(OK, you also probably need to Bekenstein bound. Otherwise, you could try sticking more and more into information into the same amount of space. But there's a limit to that, before things turn into black holes.)



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