In class this morning the idea of physically quantifying virtual data – amongst a bunch of other themes – came up as a result of seeing the Wable. At what scale, order of magnitude or difference in value do we simply stop comprehending? I’m having a hard time swallowing President Bush’s $2.9 trillion 2009 budget proposal and Microsoft’s $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo, let alone how much my recent home buying experience cost in legal fees.

How Much Does It Buy is a cute way of attempting to illustrate this scale. Of course I can’t imagine what a field of 3,064,567,261.97 cows might look like either…