Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Study: Digital universe and its impact bigger than we thought via KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News on 3/11/08 IDC estimates that by 2011 there will be 1,800 exabytes of electronic data in existence (an exabyte is 1 billion gigabytes), at a compound annual growth rate of almost 60 percent from 2006. IDC created a "Personal Digital Footprint Calculator" ticker, which counts the estimated amount of data created second by second. Worldwide Information Growth Ticker
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