lördag 17 april 2010

An Exabyte

Om informationsvolymen idag och hur snabbt den ökar:´The Internet is about scale. I was studying this, because I was trying to figure out how big this thing is. Between the dawn of humanity and 2003, roughly 5 Exabytes of information were created. (An Exabyte is roughly a million gigabytes.) We generate that amount in every two days now…. So there is a data explosion. And the data explosion is overwhelming all of us. Of course, this is good business for Google and others who try to sort all this out. Det här säger Eric Schmidt från Google CEO i Nieman Journalism Lab

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