Drop everything you are doing and open your eyes. Now, hold out your hand and look at it. Can you see it? I mean really see it? Hold your hand closer and concentrate. Maybe you’re not trying hard enough. Let me help you . . .
What you are looking at is a tool that is both part of, and used by, the most brilliantly engineered object on this planet. It can be loosely compared to both computer and machine (and more). It is a system which contains more stored information than all of the data centers mankind has ever created—combined! It is self-sufficient and capable of reproducing itself, energizing itself and making decisions for itself. The bio-mechanical machine that your hand is part of is more sophisticated than the smartphone in your pocket. And it is flexible, unlike any robot.
And yet, with all of its complexity and engineering, the bio-mechanical machine you inhabit is driven by an operating system that requires just 1.5 gigabytes (GB) of storage. To put that into perspective, a modern computer operating system typically uses between 5 and 25 GB.