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800 Megs of Data Per Person Last Year?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday November 2, 2003 @05:12AM from the now-thats-a-lot-of-data dept.

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."

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What about redundant information? by gmplague · 2003-11-02 05:14 · Score: 1, Redundant

The article fails to address the issue of redundant information, so this number I'm sure is inflated. It raises an interesting question though, to what extent are we becoming more redundant in our data storage? Once we answer that, we also answer exactly how much new information is being generated per person, per year.

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rip in the matrix? by lhaeh · 2003-11-02 05:14 · Score: 0, Redundant

DUPE-idy-do
redundant? by [amorphis] · 2003-11-02 05:16 · Score: 0, Redundant

I wonder how much of that data is redundant?

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Duplicate! by Jaeger · 2003-11-02 05:17 · Score: 0, Redundant

This is a duplicate story; see previous one here.
Dupe! by ^BR · 2003-11-02 05:18 · Score: 0, Redundant

http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/1 0/29/1355259 : Info Glut - Five Exabytes of Data Created in 2002