Found this interesting nugget of information buried in a Cnet article about a new IBM software release...
"According to an IBM study, by 2010, the amount of digital information in the world will double every 11 hours."
That figure sounds really high to me, but if the actual rate is anywhere near that fast....wow
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This sounds impossible to me. Assume the informaton double every 24 hour. In 3 years time, the amount of imformaton is 2^(365*3) times what we have now.
I agree that number does seem very high, but I assume IBM has some idea what they are talking about
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