August 2010
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Eric Schmidt: Every 2 Days We Create As Much... →
Today at the Techonomy
conference in Lake Tahoe, CA, the first panel featured Google CEO
Eric
Schmidt. As moderator David Kirkpatrick was introducing him, he
rattled off a massive stat.
Every two days now we create as much information as we did from
the dawn of civilization up until 2003, according to Schmidt.
That’s something like five exabytes of data, he says.
Let me repeat...
