Facebook sees its future built on artificial intelligence
SAN FRANCISCO -- According to one Facebook executive, if you think you're drowning in a flood of information now, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
In four years, there are expected to be about 40 zettabytes of information in the world, according to Mike Beltzner, a Facebook product manager.
Think of it this way: A zettabyte is more than 1 trillion gigabytes. If a gigabyte can store 960 minutes of music, then a zettabyte can store 2 billion years of music.
"If you take a look at the sweep of data over time, we are now producing more data every year than ever before," Beltzner told Computerworld in an interview at F8, Facebook's annual developer conference. "If you feel like you're already suffering from information overload, it's not going to get any better."
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