trivia of the moment
this from the columbia journalism review: in 2006 humanity created 161
exabytes of digital data -- 3,000,000 times as much information as all
the books that had ever been written. by 2010 this number will be 988
exabytes.
exabytes of digital data -- 3,000,000 times as much information as all
the books that had ever been written. by 2010 this number will be 988
exabytes.
posted by b1-66er at 13:46
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"data" != "information".
161 exabytes/year / 6.5 billion people = 1.1 GB/person/year = 34 bytes per second. I can't type that fast; I can't think that fast. So we're definitely not creating information that fast. We might record information about our world that fast, but the only cap on that is recording devices and bandwidth & storage for storing the data; the volume thereof doesn't say very much about very much.
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