Dr. Melvin Vopson 'The environmental weight of data'
World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern
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The Rise of the Digital Economy
In 2020, we created 59 zettabytes of information. This is 59 trillion gigabytes to give you a number. And nobody wants to delete anything, nobody wants to lose the data. So I predict there will be a moment of reckoning where all these digital services and things, they will become more or less commodities from the user end and the giant high tech end. In other words, we will not be able to do these things for free, indefinitely for too long because the growth is so stratospheric, it's unsustainable.
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