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Amount of digital information the world generated in 2006

05/19/2007 11:28 AM

The April issue of InTech magazine (www.isa.org) has the following bit.

161 exabytes is the amount of digital information that we- the world - generated last year, said technology research firm IDC. Exa- is the prefix that means 10 e18.

If a byte is eight bits then 161 exabytes amount to 1.288 x 10 e21 zeros and ones. That is one big number.

Now, How the heck do they figure that?

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Re: Amount of digital information the world generated in 2006

05/19/2007 8:30 PM

How the heck do they figure that?

More like, "Why the heck do they figure that?".

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Re: Amount of digital information the world generated in 2006

05/19/2007 9:33 PM

1. How the heck do they figure that?

2. More like, "Why the heck do they figure that?"

More like, "What the heck can we do with that?"

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Re: Amount of digital information the world generated in 2006

05/19/2007 11:21 PM

More like "who gives a rats a$$"!

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05/19/2007 11:31 PM

Nothing to be done with it

All Marketing department Power Points

Hazmat should be called

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Re: Amount of digital information the world generated in 2006

05/19/2007 11:51 PM

1. How the heck do they figure that?

2. More like, "Why the heck do they figure that?"

3. More like, "What the heck can we do with that?"

1. They're all single.

2. They're all single.

3. Impress our friends and astound our coworkers.

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Re: Amount of digital information the world generated in 2006

05/20/2007 12:00 PM

Half of it I got as junk email.

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05/20/2007 7:54 PM

The other half was probably mine. Some hours ago I was asked to describe my PC hardware and I quoted there "512 Gb RAM"

In about a year or so, it wouldn't even be a typo.

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05/21/2007 2:42 AM

Not only is 512 Gb a large number, but in your case it surely means 512 googlebytes of Really Awesome Memory.

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05/20/2007 7:38 PM

"Exa- is the prefix that means 10 e18."

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All my exas live in Texas.

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05/21/2007 2:57 AM

"...said technology research firm IDC."

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These guys obviously have a lot of time on their hands. But the guy I really wanna meet is the one who estimated that Americans daily consume the equivalent of a bale of pot the size of a large two-storey house. Wonder who he interviewed. And not only are a lot of Americans getting high every day, but they have bright smiles, too! Each day Americans use enough toothpaste to fill a KC-135 Stratotanker. Don't bogart that Crest, my friend.

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