about 64 zettabytes
By 2020, how much data was the world projected to generate in a single year?
Annual global data creation has been on a steep, sustained upward curve for over a decade.
Source: Wikipedia, Big data (2020) en.wikipedia.org
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In 2013, about how much data did the world generate in total that year?
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about 2.5 exabytes/day
As of 2012, about how much data was the world generating every single day?
That daily figure works out to roughly 900 exabytes a year, back in 2012.
Source: Wikipedia, Big data (2012) en.wikipedia.org
about 174 newspapers/person/day
In 2007, the world's one-way broadcast capacity (TV/radio) was estimated as equivalent to how many newspapers per person, per day?
Researchers used the 'newspaper equivalent' as a vivid way to measure the sheer scale of broadcast information flow.
Source: Hilbert & López, Science journal, via Wikipedia (2007) en.wikipedia.org
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