Quanitfying what you already suspected:
According to a first-ever IDC/EMC Corp. released in early March, the information explosion we've all become so accustom[ed] to is about to take off so fast new mathematical terms (think exabyte, which is equal to a billion gigabytes) will have to enter the popular lexicon to account for it all.During 2006, the "digital universe," i.e., all the bits and bytes created by everyone, everywhere, was 161 billion gigabytes or 161 exabytes. Over the next four years, the IDC predicts that number to grow six-fold every year for a 57% CAGR.
To get an idea of just how much information is flowing around globe right now, 161 exabytes is "approximately three million times the information in all the books ever written," according to IDC.
About half of all that seems to be in my Inbox.
Posted by Alan at April 3, 2007 12:33 PM