Our Ever-Expanding Data Universe

For decades, data collection, storage, transmission and analysis have been expanding at an accelerating rate.  Meanwhile the unit-cost at every step has shrunk almost as rapidly.  That is the foundational reality behind the Fifth Techno-Economic Revolution.  How much data is there?  Where is it coming from?  And why does it matter?  We’ll show you.

In the information age the most important metric is the rate of increase in the volume of information created, collected, stored, transmitted, a.....