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Information Overload

If just keeping track of the information in your inbox seems overwhelming, consider the task of counting all the information the world produces in a year. Last year, people generated five exabytes of information, the equivalent of a half-million new libraries the size of the Library of Congress. With a world population of 6.3 billion, that's about 800 megabytes of recorded information produced per person, which would take about 30 feet of books to store on paper. We're drowning in a sea of...