Infoglut
Source: School of Information Management and Systems, University of California at Berkeley
How Much Information 2003
“Print, film, magnetic, and optical storage media produced about 5 exabytes of new information in 2002. Ninety-two percent of the new information was stored on magnetic media, mostly in hard disks.” To put this into perspective, the study authors note that “five exabytes of information is equivalent in size to the information contained in half a million new libraries the size of the Library of Congress print collections.” Thanks to Shirl Kennedy for the link.
Executive Summary
Summary of Findings
Full Report (PDF: 100 pages)

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