Volumes

From March 20 Fortune magazine:

"The peoples of the earth sent and received 400,000 terabytes of information by email in 2002, according to research by the University of California at Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems. That's equivalent to the print collections of 40,000 Libraries of Congress. (And that was measured way back in 2002; the quantity has only grown since.) "

Phone calls in 2002? 17 million terabytes of data.

Now we should distinguish knowledge from data, and communication from transmission, but even so.... W-o-w.

Men, let's keep teaching our kids how to manage the glut of information available, and discern what's truth, what's useful. So we need to be learning this first.