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Part of the extreme data story is the sheer volume being generated. The report says data is now being measured in exabytes, or 10 to the power of 18. According to a University of California study at Berkeley, some five exabytes of new data was created and stored in 2002 -- enough information to fill half a million libraries the size of the US Library of Congress. In fact, if you look at all the information feeds coming in from space, global positioning systems, surveillance cameras, biometrics, RFID tags, remote sensors, mobile phones, digital cameras, tracking equipment in vehicles and even implants in people, "we don't have enough storage in the world to keep all the stuff that's being captured", Binney says. ________________________________________________________________________ Save and share anything you find online - Furl @ http://www.furl.net ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Search the archives for political-research at http://www.terazen.com/ Subscribe to the RSS feed for political-research at http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/rss Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
