Google CEO to Editors: ‘The Data Explosion Is Overwhelming All Of Us’

Megan Garber of MIT’s Niemen Lab caught Google CEO Eric Schmidt‘s comments last night at the American Society of News Editors conference in DC. Here are Schmidt’s thoughts on data:

Between the dawn of humanity and 2003, roughly 5 Exabytes of information were created. (An Exabyte is roughly a million gigabytes.) We generate that amount in every two days now… So there is a data explosion. And the data explosion is overwhelming all of us. Of course, this is good business for Google and others who try to sort all this out.

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