Friday, November 07, 2003
THAT much information? You're kidding!
You might have seen this story making its way around the Internet last week. On one hand, it's kind of hard to believe but on the other hand, considering the growth of the
Web, not difficult at all: according to the How Much Information 2003 study done by the University of Berkeley, "Print, film, magnetic, and optical storage media produced about 5 exabytes of new information in 2002." What is an exabyte? "..." the nineteen million books and other print collections in the US Library of Congress would contain about ten terabytes of information; five exabytes of information is equivalent in size to the information contained in half a million new libraries the size of the Library of Congress print collections."
Information explosion? The Berkeley researchers estimate that new stored information grew about 30% a year between 1999 and 2002.
You might have seen this story making its way around the Internet last week. On one hand, it's kind of hard to believe but on the other hand, considering the growth of the
Web, not difficult at all: according to the How Much Information 2003 study done by the University of Berkeley, "Print, film, magnetic, and optical storage media produced about 5 exabytes of new information in 2002." What is an exabyte? "..." the nineteen million books and other print collections in the US Library of Congress would contain about ten terabytes of information; five exabytes of information is equivalent in size to the information contained in half a million new libraries the size of the Library of Congress print collections."
Information explosion? The Berkeley researchers estimate that new stored information grew about 30% a year between 1999 and 2002.
