Did anyone read through to the article NYT review? (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23231 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23231) The yottabyte quote is: "As th

Did anyone read through to the article NYT review? (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23231 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23231) The yottabyte quote is: "As the sensors associated with the various surveillance missions improve, the data volumes are increasing with a projection that sensor data volume could potentially increase to the level of Yottabytes (10^24 Bytes) by 2015." Note the qualifiers and the future time date; also, this is talking about raw sensor data. It is not uncommon for raw data to be reduced by a few orders of magnitude via aggregation, compression, and simply discarding irrelevant sensor readings before hitting permanent storage (e.g. look at the LHC).