{"id":1536,"date":"2007-03-06T02:30:41","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T07:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2007-03-07T18:34:59","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T23:34:59","slug":"time-to-learn-your-exabytes-tech-researchers-calculate-wide-world-of-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1536","title":{"rendered":"Time to learn your exabytes: Tech researchers calculate wide world of data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>161 exabytes<\/b> of information was generated last year according to a CBC.ca story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/cp\/Oddities\/070305\/K030517AU.html\">Time to learn your exabytes: Tech researchers calculate wide world of data<\/a> by Brian Bergstein (March 5, 2007). That is way up from the estimate in <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.sims.berkeley.edu\/research\/projects\/how-much-info-2003\/\">How Much Information? 2003<\/a> that I blogged <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=726\">before<\/a>. The study quotes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idc.com\/getdoc.jsp?containerId=PRF000127\">John F. Gantz<\/a> of IDC, but I can&#8217;t find the paper on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idc.com\/\">IDC<\/a> site. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.wired.com\/dynamic\/stories\/I\/INFORMATION_EXPLOSION?SITE=WIRE&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\">Wired News<\/a> also has a version of the story, but again they link to the general IDC site.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Matt amd Mike for this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>161 exabytes of information was generated last year according to a CBC.ca story, Time to learn your exabytes: Tech researchers calculate wide world of data by Brian Bergstein (March 5, 2007). That is way up from the estimate in How Much Information? 2003 that I blogged before. The study quotes John F. Gantz of IDC, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1536\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time to learn your exabytes: Tech researchers calculate wide world of data<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,24,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-culture-and-technology","category-markup-and-text-representation","category-media-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}