“Quantifying the amount of information that exists in the world is hard. What is clear is that there is an awful lot of it, and it is growing at a terrific rate (a compound annual 60%) that is speeding up all the time. The flood of data from sensors, computers, research labs, cameras, phones and the like surpassed the capacity of storage technologies in 2007. Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Europe’s particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, generate 40 terabytes every second—orders of magnitude more than can be stored or analysed. So scientists collect what they can and let the rest dissipate into the ether.”

The Economist heeft deze maand een speciaal rapport “Data, Data Everywhere” geschreven, dat in gaat op hoe we moeten omgaan met de enorme hoeveelheid aan data die beschikbaar is. Het rapport kun je hier lezen.

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