800 Megs of Data Per Person Last Year?

Ant writes "Growing net, computer and phone use is driving a huge rise in the amount of information people generate and use. US researchers estimate that every year 800MB of information is produced for every person on the planet. Their study found that information stored on paper, film, magnetic and optical disks has doubled since 1999. Paper is still proving popular though. The amount of information stored in books, journals and other documents has grown 43% in three years."

Comments

umm..repost

[Anonymous Coward]

i bet half this increase is due to the number of slashdot reposts also increasing over the same timespan.

Re:What about redundant information?

[t0rnt0pieces]

The article fails to address the issue of redundant information

You mean stuff like this?

Re:What about redundant information?

[FiloEleven]

Funny you should mention redundant information, as THIS IS A DUPE. Woo! 2.8% of the 800 megs per person average comes from Slashdot dupes alone.

It's really 400.

[Eric_Cartman_South_P]

If everything is posted twice, like on slashdot, and like THIS story, that 800 MB is really 400 MB.

Also, if If everything is posted twice, like on slashdot, and like THIS story, that 800 MB is really 400 MB.

Re:More and more data

[Richard_at_work]

How many Libraries of Congress is an "Assload"? Is the data easily retrievable?

Re:Only 800Mb per year

[bersl2]

Personally, I find that figure insulting.

I mean, I'm worth at least a gig...

Re:More and more data

[Davak]

Definition of assload

Assload is a relative term... like "a lot"

Normally one wouldn't ask "how many Libraries of Congress is a lot?"

/end of my stupid point

Re:Makes you feel...

[Anonymous Coward]

Dude, lighten up and stop being paranoid.

The NSA doesn't care which Mary Kate & Ashley video is your favorite.