Briefs

Financial Times (06/12/02) reports that About 24 exabytes of unique information has been produced by the human race, according to a two-year-old study from the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley, while study leader Hal Varian has noted the possibility of an acceleration of data growth in a recent update.

Note: an exabyte is 2**60 or about 10**18 -- a billion gigabytes.