Data – Promise and Peril
According to Cisco, global internet traffic will grow from 0.001 petabytes (or PB, where each PB equals 10005 bytes) in 1990, to an estimated 273 exabytes (or EB, where each EB equals 10006 bytes or 1018 bytes) by 2022 (Internet Traffic 2021). By way of a very loose analogy, some estimates place the sum total of words spoken during humankind’s existence over the last 200,00 plus years at “only” 5 EB. Fully two- thirds (and growing) of the Earth’s population are now using some form of mobile device…now add in all . . .
From the Fall 2021 Issue
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