By one measure: That's when analog storage took a back seat
(NEWSER) - Humanity broadcasts a mind-boggling amount of information daily—try 1.9 zettabytes on for size, says a USC study . In other words, each person is hit with 174 newspapers’ worth of information every day, the Daily Mail reports. Meanwhile, computers, libraries, DVD collections, and newspapers can store some 295 exabytes—a figure with 20 zeroes—of information. A stat easier to handle: 2002 is the first year in which the world's digital storage capacity became larger than analog capacity. More»
