[LINK] World Produces Up To Two Exabytes Of Data Yearly

[KevinL]

I really wish they'd quote the change in signal:noise alongside those 
figures...

KL

>>> Tony Barry wrote
> <http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/156962.html>World Produces Up To 
> Two Exabytes Of Data Yearly Newsbytes A study conducted by the 
> University of California at Berkeley and funded by the data storage 
> firm EMC, has reportedly shown that computers and the Internet have 
> created an explosion in the amount of data available worldwide, 
> leaving people "drowning in a sea of information." A report today by 
> Agence France-Presse quoted an EMC spokesperson as observing, "It's 
> taken 300,000 years for humans to accumulate 12 exabytes (1 billion 
> gigabytes) of information. It will take just 2.5 more years to create 
> the next 12 exabytes
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KevinL