Sound Bytes Terror of terabytes. One terabyte, the smallest practical measure for our project, is a million megabytes, which is equivalent to the textual content of a million books. An exabyte, which is what we use to report the final results, is a billion gigabtyes. Capabilities of compression. Democratization of data.
Individuals produce significant amounts of non-digital information.
As photos and videos move to digital formats, households will have to manage terabytes of data. Dominance of digital. Ninety-three percent of the information produced each year is stored in digital form. Print and film content is rapidly moving to magnetic and optical storage. This is true for professional use now, and will become increasingly true at the level of individual users.