5. It took two centuries to fill the U.S. Library of Congress with more than:
29 million 2.4 million 12 million 4.8 million 57 million
Books and periodicals Recordings Photographs Maps Manuscripts
Today, it takes about 2 days for the world to churn the equivalent
amount of new digital information (five exabytes)
The question then is, how do we leverage such data to insight and
foresight
6. Since 1982, the price of data
storage has dropped by a factor
of 3.6 million…
If gas mileage had advanced
at a similar pace,
today’s cars would get
17,437,937 MPG
Enough to circle the globe 2,200
times…on a single gallon