Shift Happens

My good buddy Jake sent me this presentation, which was originally written by Karl Fisch and was adapted by Scott McLeod. When I first watched it, I was thinking how I would love to see a footnoted version…and then I found it. Pretty powerful stuff. I bet this will be viral pretty fast.

I found the 1.5 exabytes of new information each year figure to be especially interesting in light of Schmidt’s 2005 5 million terabytes figure. 1.5 exabytes = 1.5 million terabytes, so we are now up around 6.5 million terabytes in the world, and Google has indexed approximately 500 of these, which puts them back down to .07%, but that’s up from .0034%. It seems to me that Schmit and Co. probably extrapolated their figures from the ’03 Berkeley report where the 1.5 exabyte figure came from, which I referenced in my .0034% post, but there I missed the 1.5 growth number. All 100 pages of the report can be downloaded in .pdf form here.