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Probably an order of magnitude or two more. Still something that is feasable in a research context - early MRI and genome sequencing had similar "too much data" problems like this, but the researchers still built it out to learn stuff. Tech marched forward and these days no one really blinks about it. I presume that if such a "all the cells scanner" was invented today, it would only be used for research for a long time - and that by the time it became widespread data storage will have caught up.



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