Ø More than 300TB
of print material each year (books,
journals, newspapers, magazines)
Ø More than 25TB
of Movies each year
Ø About 375,000TB
of Photography each year
Ø About 987TB of
Radio each year
Ø About 8,000TB of
TV each year
Ø More than 58TB
of Audio CDs each year
…and that doesn’t include software (say, video
games)
Or materials born-digital on the
Web, etc…
(from “How Much Information? 2003,”
Peter Lyman & Hal Varian)