Sixty one CD-ROMS for every man, woman, and child on Earth. That’s the amount of global data humankind stored on devices of every kind in 2007 — 295 exabytes, or 80 times more information per person than exists in the historic Library of Alexandria, Egypt. “We tracked 60 analog and digital technologies from 1986 to 2007,” said study co-author Martin Hilbert, Ph.D., an information researcher at USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. “Our computing capacity grew at an annual rate of 58 percent, roughly nine times faster than the world economy.”
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Massive Information Stockpile Guides Humanity's Course
Posted by: Mike Martin February 11, 2011 12:38 PMSixty one CD-ROMS for every man, woman, and child on Earth. That’s the amount of global data humankind stored on devices of every kind in 2007 — 295 exabytes, or 80 times more information per person than exists in the historic Library of Alexandria, Egypt. “We tracked 60 analog and digital technologies from 1986 to 2007,” said study co-author Martin Hilbert, Ph.D., an information researcher at USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. “Our computing capacity grew at an annual rate of 58 percent, roughly nine times faster than the world economy.”