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06 março 2007
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Tech researchers calculate digital info: A new study that estimates how much digital information is zipping around (hint: a lot) finds that for the first time, there's not enough storage space to hold it all. Good thing we delete some stuff.
The report, assembled by the technology research firm IDC, sought to account for all the ones and zeros that make up photos, videos, e-mails, Web pages, instant messages, phone calls and other digital content cascading through our world today. The researchers assumed that an average digital file gets replicated three times.
Add it all up and IDC determined that the world generated 161 billion gigabytes — 161 exabytes — of digital information last year.
That's like 12 stacks of books that each reach from the Earth to the sun. Or you might think of it as 3 million times the information in all the books ever written, according to IDC.
[act.: Un estudio cuantifica en 1.100 millones los usuarios de Internet en 2006: Internet registró 1.100 millones de usuarios en 2006, que ascenderán en 2010 a 1.600 millones, según las conclusiones del estudio 'El Universo Digital en expansión: una previsión del crecimiento mundial de información hasta 2010'.
Mas, via António, Nearly 750 million people, age 15+, used the Internet worldwide in January 2007, a 10-percent increase over January 2006, according to comScore Networks.]