12 exabytes of unique information…
Humanity had created about 12 exabytes of unique information by mid-1999 and would double that vast quantity by mid-2002, researchers from the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley, predicted two years ago. There is an interesting article in the Financial Times about the vast heap of information being churned out by the networked world. An exabyte is 10 to the power 18 bytes, or a billion gigabytes, or 50,000 times the contents of the US Library of Congress.
