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Feb. 11, 2011
Defining a Data Deluge
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| From overflowing inboxes to portable players brimming with music, the amount of data in the world is increasing. Martin Hilbert, co-author of a paper in the journal Scienceon the tidal wave of information, says that in 2007, humanity was able to store some 295 exabytes of information, but that's just a pittance compared to the amount of data stored in the natural world. |
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Martin Hilbert
Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California
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