I remember hearing about the growing flood of information we as a society were generating since I was in grade school. Turns out my school teachers were right, though what they thought was a flood then is a trickle by today’s standards.. Consider that from the dawn of human time some 24,000 years ago to roughly the start of the 21st century, humans generated 5 exabytes of data. What’s an Exabyte? 10 to the 18th power or 1 billion gigabytes. That’s a lot of data, right? Turns out we create that same amount of data every couple of days anymore. This infographic from the folks at Jellyvision shows how much information we are generating today and the tidal wave it is causing. How much data are you contributing to that pool?
