Interestingly, the amount of data people create by writing email messages, taking photos, and downloading music and movies is miniscule compared to the amount of data being created about them, the EMC-sponsored study found.
World’s data will grow by factor of 50 in next decade - Digital Lifestyle - Macworld UK (via infoneer-pulse).
Our computers and our Google profiles and our internet histories will eventually know more about us than even our close family will be able to piece together from our communication with them.
Imagine that: if a computer wanted to simulate me, maybe create an artificial intelligence version of me, then extensive interviews with my friends and family would be less informative than a simple scan of my laptop and of the websites I frequent.
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