An article in Information Week on Eric Schmidt's talk about the primacy of mobiles caught my attention not because of the insights on mobiles, but because of his comments on information overload and one interesting fact:
"And so if you think about the information problem—interesting statistics: between sorta the birth of the world and 2003, there were five exabytes of information created—that's the total over that period. In the last bit, we create 5 exabytes every two days. "
At first I thought that the "two days" was a typo, but I'll assume Google knows what its talking about in this domain. That certainly puts into perspective the problems of data overload and dealing with data complexity.
