Data is something we create, but it's also something we imagine.
We really are living in an age of information overload. Google estimates that there are 300 exabytes (300 followed by 18 zeros) of human-made information in the world today. Only four years ago there were just 30 exabytes. We've created more information in the past few years than in all of human history before us.
Eric Schmidt likes to point out that if you recorded all human communication from the dawn of time to 2003, it takes up about five billion gigabytes of storage space. Now were creating that much data every two days
There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.
If you have a lot of data and you want to create value from that data, one of the things you might consider is building up an AI team.
We're all creating an archive of our own lives, whether we're aware of it or not.
Data is cost. It takes money to create data, store it, clean it, and throw resources at it to learn anything from it.
