Appendix D: The Information Flood—One Zettabyte of Data
It’s no news that we are swimming in a flood of information. But, how much will we be inundated with? The Discovery Institute (discover.org) published a white paper (1/2008) titled Estimating the Exaflood. In it, he predicted U.S. Internet traffic in 2015. To get a grasp of the results, we need to know what a Zettabyte is. Note that a Petabyte is 1015 bytes, an Exabyte is 1018 bytes, a Zettabyte is 1021 bytes, and a Yottabyte is 1024 bytes. The white paper estimates the following in 2015 for U.S. Internet traffic:
• Movie downloads and P2P file sharing could be 100 Exabytes.
• Video calling and virtual windows could generate 400 Exabytes.
• “Cloud” computing and remote backup could total ...
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