JiveLad
25th-January-2007, 01:00 PM
Off-topic (sorry) but does anyone have any idea how many MB the internet actually is?
What is even more interesting is the question "how much information is there in the world". (And how much is dance related).
When I was in short trousers I did some research in this - and I quote from my (ahem) white paper on trust (2001):
"The amount of information available in the world is currently estimated to be “several thousand petabytes[1] (http://www.cerocscotland.com/forum/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=334235#_ftn1)” (Lesk, 1999). It is estimated to be growing at a rate of two exabytes (two billion gigabytes) per year (Lyman and Varian, 2000)
[1] (http://www.cerocscotland.com/forum/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=334235#_ftnref1) Petabyte [ 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes OR 1015 bytes]
· 2 Petabytes: All US academic research libraries;
· 8 Petabytes: All information available on the Web;
· 20 Petabytes: Production of hard-disk drives in 1995;
· 200 Petabytes: All printed material
Exabyte [ 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes OR 1018 bytes]
· 2 Exabytes: Total volume of information generated worldwide annually.
· 5 Exabytes: All words ever spoken by human beings
What is even more interesting is the question "how much information is there in the world". (And how much is dance related).
When I was in short trousers I did some research in this - and I quote from my (ahem) white paper on trust (2001):
"The amount of information available in the world is currently estimated to be “several thousand petabytes[1] (http://www.cerocscotland.com/forum/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=334235#_ftn1)” (Lesk, 1999). It is estimated to be growing at a rate of two exabytes (two billion gigabytes) per year (Lyman and Varian, 2000)
[1] (http://www.cerocscotland.com/forum/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=334235#_ftnref1) Petabyte [ 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes OR 1015 bytes]
· 2 Petabytes: All US academic research libraries;
· 8 Petabytes: All information available on the Web;
· 20 Petabytes: Production of hard-disk drives in 1995;
· 200 Petabytes: All printed material
Exabyte [ 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes OR 1018 bytes]
· 2 Exabytes: Total volume of information generated worldwide annually.
· 5 Exabytes: All words ever spoken by human beings