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Eric Schmidt: Every 2 Days We Create As Much Information As We Did Up To 2003
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoThis seems to confuse information and data. Yes, we are generating a vast amount of data, but the information content is much smaller than it appears. Yes, there's more information there than you might think, but it's not all information - a lot of it is redundant.
- byoung2 16y agoStuff like instant messages and tweets are things that 20 years ago we thought or said, but are now recorded and made part of the public record. Back then I might have called your landline, gotten no answer, and decided to call back later to have a conversation. Now I leave voicemail, Google transcribes it and emails/texts it to you. You text me back, I Tweet something funny you said, then we both meet at Starbucks and Foursquare checkin together. We'll post the pictures on Facebook later. Definitely more data recorded and indexed nowadays, but about the same amount of meaningful information as before.