05 Aug Exaschmidt

Google CEO Eric Schmidt speaking at the Techonomy conference Wednesday:

There was 5 exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days, and the pace is increasing… People aren’t ready for the technology revolution that’s going to happen to them.

FYI: An exabyte (EB) is a unit of computer data storage equal to two to the sixtieth power, or 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes in decimal. A modern laptop hard drive might hold 250 gigabytes, which is impossibly huge. An EB equals four thousand million of those hard drives.