3.6 zettabytes!

Full story: Americans consumed 3,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of info at home last year

 

So-o-o-o what this is saying is that "Average" Americans are "Geeks." I can live with that.:-D

BT

 

That is a lot of information. Just think about how many other countries there are in the world with a similar level of IT usage and you can see why the internet is now at least a yottabyte in size.

 

34 gigabytes a day!:-D Cmon! I'll go out on a limb here and say someone screwed up somewhere,I'm a heavy user and I don't download 34 gigs of content video or anything in a week,that's eight full quality DVD's a day:-D

Need more info,are they going off server output or a cross section of average Americans?

 

Rikky, I don't think that is entirely digital media from computer to screen. IMO, that amount is how much data the brain obtains a day. $.02

 

That would make more sense,yeah just read the data went up by 6% well that wouldn't make sense if it was only digital info.

But if its is how much data gets to the brain it would just be the bandwidth of the senses multiplied by time so I'm not sure what security has to do with that?

I dunno,need more info,I'll look up the study I'm intrigued.

 

http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/general/12-09Information.asp

Right then.

http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/graphics/images/2009/12-09HMI03.jpg

 

Now that chart is funny. How do we get compression into our minds? :confused :confused :confused

 

No no. It's not downloading. It's content viewed, or browsed, in total.

 

Yeah I worked it out two posts back :-D

That's the way the brain works,instead of storing everything you see in a day as raw memories i.e. as in a photographic memory it breaks things down into smaller memories,for example coffee in a cup with a spoon isn't stored as one full image its broken down to coffee,cup,spoon ,when your brain stores it checks if it has a memory of a spoon,coffee,cup and if so it doesn't remember or store them to save space.

That's why sometimes its hard to remember things,say if your tryna remember a party for example all the parts of the party such as house,people,location are stored in different parts of the brain and its only when you access all of them at the same time that you remember,just like in data compression your trying to get the right code that builds up the memory from the smaller parts.

 

That is called "Selective Memory".

I want to condense a 2 hour movie into 2 minutes and retain everything! :-D Then I want a brain upgrade in less than a week.

 

Nah selective memory is what Irish people use when asked where a TV is :-D

 

Care full!!! you could lose a kneecap talking like that:-D

 

Ya, I agree unless one counts digital TV being in the mix. Heck, I'm online for a good 8 hours a day and I'd be hard pressed to come up with 34MB if it wasn't for sites like YouTube. I would blow past my 30GB/ mth bandwith limit in a day!:-D

 

Meh @ 10 minutes!

EDIT: OK, I see you all figured it out. I should finish reading the thread first before posting.:-D