The document discusses how the amount of digital information created and stored is growing exponentially. It notes that in 2013, the total amount of digital information created was estimated to be 281 exabytes, which is approximately 3 million times the amount of information contained in all printed works. It also discusses how the rate of information growth means that by 2020, the total amount of digital information created annually will surpass the total storage capacity available.

2. 281 exabytes
about 3 million
times the
information in
all
the books ever
written.
the amount of
information created
will surpass, for
the first time, the
storage capacity
available
62% growth
~35 Zettabyte
44 TIMES AS
BIG as it was
in 2009

21. Aquarius the water carrier (right), and the three faces of the New Year - past, present and future
http://www.paradoxplace.com/Photo%20Pages/France/Chartres/Zodiac_Window/Individual_ZodiacsA_Aquarius_to_Taurus.ht
m#Aquarius
The famous Sombrero galaxy (M104)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M104_ngc4594_sombrero_galaxy_hi-res.jpg
Atomium Brussels
http://atomium.be/
Dr. Robert Goddard at Clark Universityhttp://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2002-000130.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/4479013489/
extranoise (flikr)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/extranoise/278465198/sizes/o/in/gallery-molisedigitale-72157622571662556/
California Gold Rush
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gullgraver_1850_California.jpg
Historisches Archiv Erfassungszentrum 13.03.2009 Archivgut nach Bergung und grober Reinigung
http://www.stadt-koeln.de/1/presseservice/03305/Larry
Landolfi; The summer Milky Way seems to stand on end over this lonely, deserted road in Texas. Composite photo.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap071020.html
Map of Science
http://www.lanl.gov/news/index.php/fuseaction/home.story/story_id/15960
Dalbera (flikr) - Le Mundaneum à Mons Belgique)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dalbera/236736375/sizes/o/
DocBurst
http://faculty.uoit.ca/collins/research/docuburst/index.html
Seeing Standards: A Visualization of the Metadata Universe
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/metadatamap/
CASPAR/DCC Representation Information Repository http://registry.dcc.ac.uk:8080/RegistryWeb/Registry/
United States National Archives
http://blogs.ancestry.com/circle/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/National%20Archives%20ext.%20bandw.bmp
Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, British Columbia - 1600x1200
http://www.wallpaperweb.org/wallpaper/buildings/vancouver-public-library-vancouver-british-
columbia_1600x1200_33407.htmBritish
Museum
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_Museum.jpg
Canterbury Cathedral Aquarius
http://www.paradoxplace.com/Photo%20Pages/UK/Britain_South_and_West/Canterbury_Cathedral/Canterbury.htm

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