"the world's total yearly production of print, film, optical, and magnetic content would require roughly 1.5 billion gigabytes of storage. This is the equivalent of 250 megabytes per person for each man, woman, and child on earth."
Source from berkeley.edu
Terror of terabytes.
One terabyte, the smallest practical measure for our project, is a million megabytes, which is equivalent to the textual content of a million books. An exabyte, which is what we use to report the final results, is a billion gigabtyes.Capabilities of compression.
Conversion to ASCII, MP3, MP4 and other compression technologies dramatically reduces storage requirements by one to two orders of magnitude.Democratization of data.
Individuals produce significant amounts of non-digital information. As photos and videos move to digital formats, households will have to manage terabytes of data.
Dominance of digital.
Ninety-three percent of the information produced each year is stored in digital form. Hard drives in stand-alone PCs account for 55% of total storage shipped each year.
Paucity of print.
If all printed material published in the world each year were expressed in ASCII, it could be stored in less than 5 terabytes.Immensity of images.
Over 80 billion photographs are taken every year, which would take over 400 petabytes to store, more than 80 million times the storage requirements for text.
As you can see, everyday there is so many information release throughout the world, how can we get the most useful information out of all this information. It could end up 60% or 70% of those information which is not relevant or consider junks to us. I wrote this blog because I am now facing a problem …
Digesting information, I have been scouring around the web almost everyday looking and seeking for new way to optimize my site and also how to increase traffic and so on. Let me list out:
SEO Related site bookmark link: 55 links
SEO downloaded articles: 20 articles
SEO related ebooks: 15 ebooks
It may sound likes is too much, but in fact, I hardly read and revisit those material stored in my local drives, because each time I scoured the web, there is something new coming out and I will download it. It may sound like a collection. So, I ask myself, what's the point getting the information without reading it? I couldn't answer it. To pleasure myself or a reference when I need it?In order to stop facing the problem, I have thought off an idea. I have set an hour a day to read it, delete irrelevant information and just concentrate on a few rather than worrying how long I can complete it. The other point to think off is, will the information relevant or is there any better one to read on? So, the problem lies here, there is always a better one, but we cannot own everything. Concentrate on one and stick to the goals. Read it and implement the knowledge that has been read is important. Hope it works !
