It has been said that in the information age, information not only increases—it accelerates! Case in point, this past year a group of faculty and students at the School of Information Management and Systems at UC Berkeley added up all the data produced each year in electronic and print media. What they discovered was that the world's total production of information amounts to a grand total of 1.5 exobytes worth of data an exobyte is 1 billion gigabytes, about 250 megabytes for each man, woman and child on the planet! Do we need to point out that much of that bandwidth is taken up by imagery?
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