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How Much Data Will Humans Create & Store This Year?

THE WORLD'S INFORMATION IS DOUBLING EVERY TWO YEARS, WITH A COLOSSAL New information being 1.8 zettabytes 2011 created in 2011 also includes replicated information such as shared documents or to be created & replicated in duplicated DVDS. In terms of sheer volume, 1.8 ZB of data is equivalent to: EVERY PERSON IN THE UNITED STATES TWEETING ÖVER 3 TWEETS PER MINUTE 200 BILLION HD MOVIES or EACH 120 MINUTES LONG 4:320 1= 10 billion TWEETS PER DAY PER PERSON IT WOULD TAKE ONE PERSON 47 MILLION YEARS 26,976. FOR YEARS NON-STOP OF 24/7 VIEWING TO WATCH EVERY MOVIE Storing 1.8 ZB of information would take: 57.5 BILLION 32GB APPLE IPADS 1 = 10 billion WITH THAT MANY IPADS WE COULD BUILD A MOUNTAIN OF IPADS THAT IS 25-TIMES HIGHER THAN MT. FUJI MT. FUJI MT. IPAD 3,776 m 94,400 m SOURCES: Extracting Value from Chaos IDC Digital Universe study (sponsored by EMC Corporation) Mashable Infographics Design by @sasha_em Research by Josh Catone

How Much Data Will Humans Create & Store This Year?

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If you’ve spent any amount time watching your Facebook or Twitter feed stream by, it should be obvious that the world is creating a lot of data. But because all that data is really just a collection... of ones and zeros it can be hard to actually visualize how much is really there. Sure, we can put a number on it, like 1.8 zettabytes being created and replicated (as in copied to DVDs and shared in the cloud) this year alone — a number that doubles every two years, according to a recent study by IDC and EMC. But how much is that, really? Not only is data itself ethereal and hard to visualize, but the numbers are so gargantuan that they quickly become too abstract to grasp. --Josh Catone

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