Five Exabytes

How much new information is created each year? According to a 2003 study by UC Berkeley’s School of Information Management, the world produced five exabytes (one quintillion bytes) of content in 2002 — the same amount of data poot forth by all of humanity between 25,000 B.C. and A.D. 2000. “Five exabytes of information is equivalent in size to the information contained in 37,000 new libraries the size of the Library of Congress…”

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