Researchers from the University of California, San Diego, have determined how much information people use yearly in this country. And OH MY GOD. Though a lot of it is in the form of pixels, apparantly americans use around 3.6 ZETTABYTES every year... that's 36 Gigabytes a day PER CONSUMER.
http://digg.com/d31CM92
I know some my friends especially are thinking (couldn't I be using more than this?) Well consider how much you actually process yourself daily. Then, Average yourself against the rest of america and understand you have to compensate for everybody else. And you're still pullin 36 Gigs a day. Or, about the entirety (special features and everything) of over 5 (Completely Full) DVDs a day. This is the equivalent of EVERYONE IN AMERICA watching the ENTIRE Lord of the Rings saga... EVERY DAY. yeah you gamers... it's kind of like that.
For those of you who can even begin to comprehend the numbers, and aren't sure what a zetabyte is,
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes = 1000to the 7th power, or 10 to the 21st power.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettabyte
MIND BLOWING.
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