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That giant sifting sound

This video was featured at The Ideas Economy: Information Summit in Santa Clara, CA as a scene-setter for our two-day event on making sense of the data deluge. Produced in collaboration with Martin Hilbert, Provost Fellow at the University of Southern California, this is based on his research of the world's technological capacity to store, communicate and compute information.

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For more on this, visit: http://www.martinhilbert.net/WorldInfoCapacity.html
(with access to additional studies and information on the world's technological capacity to store, communicate and compute information)