Of course about 99% of the information being generated is porn and/or pictures of cats with silly captions. (Or both.)
On 18 April 2015 at 12:15, Kim Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 18 Apr 2015, at 4:56 am, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Current global growth estimates are that every two days, the world is now > creating as much new digital information as all the data ever created from > the dawn of humans through the current century. It has been estimated that > by 2020, the size of the world’s digital universe will be close to 44 > trillion gigabytes > > Current estimates are that only around 7 percent of the world’s devices > are connected and communicating today. The amount of data that these 7 > percent of connected devices generate is estimated to represent only 2 > percent of the world’s total data universe today. > > > > So only 2 per cent of all 'data' that exists can be reached online? > > So - where's the rest of it? Sounds like a case for Dark Matter! > > > Current projections are for this number to grow to about 10 percent of the > world’s data by the year 2020. > > > > Dark Energy is causing everything to expand at an accelerated rate. > Everything includes the human part of everything. Everything is being > emulated, simulated, duplicated, cloned, copied at every instant. Data are > like Bruno's amoebas, they have achieved self-replication. Memes > proliferate at a faster rate than genes, so we will reasonably soon leave > the genetic plane altogether and merge with our data. > > I mean - we, I, you; we are all DATA. > > > > This explosion of the internet of things is very rapidly happening as we > speak -- > > > > > Did somebody only just realise this or something? Is that supposed to be > news? > > > > and it is happening, on top of the already exploding volumes of data > getting generated as a result of human activity -- and as the internet of > things very rapidly growsm all of these connected, chatting, devices will > begin > > > > Will? WILL? Have you time-travelled back to 1934 or something? > > > > creating huge new volumes of actionable real time data flowing on top of > the existing mushrooming volumes resulting from human interactions -- and > also interacting with the hman driven data streams in many interesting and > perhaps unforeseen ways. > > > Well, maybe talk about that, then.... > > > > The growth rates in information volumes are staggering really. > > > > Well stagger me with some new ideas about that. The transhumanist takeover > seems the only likely outcome of letting this process run its course. The > elites will benefit as usual. > > K > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
