(softpedia.com): For a long period of time, especially in the last century, humankind settled into its role as a consumer society. Information, products, everything was produced by few and consumed by many. Thanks to the Internet, that is changing, everyone is a creator today, for example, by simply posting a tweet. This newfound creativity, though, has a very measurable side effect, it produces a huge amount of digital data. In fact, ‘huge,’ may not even begin to cover it, this year, the “Digital Universe,” the total amount of data stored in the world’s computers, will surpass a zettabyte. One zettabyte is equal to a million million gigabytes, a number so large it is hard to get our minds around it.
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