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July 8, 2009
How Large is a Petabyte?
Cool link from Gizmodo:
Of course, this is showing us that the big virtual library collection gets more possible and probable every day. Is it within my lifetime? Is it within my kids' lifetimes?
I wonder what the search engine will look like? Surely the now traditional and boring Google style box search > display list > show ads model will collapse under the volume. Will libraries invent the next model or will the culture of can't intervene?
Stephen
Posted by stephen at July 8, 2009 10:17 AM
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Great chart!! On related point, from IBM Research 1999:
1 PB = Photos of everyone on the planet
1 EB (exabyte) = All the online data on the planet
1 ZB (zetabyte) = Phone records for every call ever made on the Earth for 10 million years
1 YB (yottabyte) = 1 copy of every Hollywood movie ever made, with copies for everyone in the world
1 YB =1026 bytes = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
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at July 8, 2009 2:17 PM