By 2020: - The amount of digital data created annually will be around 44 zettabytes, as more devices are connected to the internet and more content is uploaded. - However, we currently only analyze around 0.5% of the data we create each year, leaving most of it unused. - This gap between data creation and analysis raises questions about how to better extract meaningful information and insights from the vast troves of raw data being generated every day.

1. We analyze and use
only 0.5% of the data
that we create
Today Google, Amazon, Microsoft and
Facebook hold approximately 1,200
petabytes of information (1.2 million
terabytes)
billion things
There will be 7.6 billion internet users
By 2020,“1.7 megabytes of new infor-
mation will be created every second
for every human being on the planet”
By 2020, our digital universe will grow from
4.4 zettabytes today to around 44
zettabytes (That’s 44 trillion gigabytes!)
25
1 zettabyte is 10^21 or
10,000,000,0
00,000,000,
000,000
bytes
By 2020
1 million GB =
1 petabyte =
13 years of HD TV
consumed (24/7)
IoT - Gartner predicts that 25
billion things will be connected to
the internet by 2020
If our digital universe roughly holds 4.4 Zettabytes of information, and we are only analyzing 0.5% of the data that
we create, we are led to question the intrinsic value of the information we are creating.
Russel Lincoln Ackoffs Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom (DIKW) pyramid relates the different types of infor-
mation and their function. The IoT revolution will collect large amounts of raw data. But will we able to translate this
data into more meaningful information?
Sources:
http://www.sciencefocus.com/qa/how-many-terabytes-data-are-internet
http://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2015/09/30/big-da-
ta-20-mind-boggling-facts-everyone-must-read/
http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2905717
Data
Information
Knowledge
Wisdom
1 sec.
Every second, we
Google 40,000
search queries. That
amounts to 3.5 billion
searches per day and
1.2 trillion searches
per year.
1 day
In Aug 2015, 1
billion users were
recorded using
Facebook in a
single day
1 year
In 2015, 1 trillion
photos will be
taken and billions
will be uploaded
to the internet.
5 yrs.
By 2020, the total
amount of smart
phone users will
amount to 6.1
billion globally
1 min.
Every minute
we upload 300
hours of video
to YouTube
Wisdom- When information is put into action giving us insight
to the “long-term consequences of any act”
Knowledge- Information put into practice.
Information- Organizes raw data into coherent patterns; can be
likened to alphabet letters composed into a sentence.
Data- The elemental construction of information; can be likened
to alphabet letters randomly stringed together.
Information Overload in the Information Age
HOW MUCH DATA ARE WE TECHNOLOGY
NORTH AMERICAN DISTRIBUTOR
PLANET
We are in the midst of the Information Age. With more people connecting to the internet than ever before,
we are collectively creating and uploading more content online. Are you feeling the information overload?
Each Second, Each Hour, Each Year
CREATING?