A study of how much new information is created each year was done by UC Berkeley. Turns out, over 5 million exabytes in 2002 alone. That’s 5 million terabytes (where a terabyte is 1 thousand gigabytes). That’s just one year!
Given the shear volume of data, and the ephemeral nature of so much digital storage, what will the archeologists of the future be able to learn about us?
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