What the hell are we going to do with all of this data?

There is so much of it, it’s maddening sometimes.  Google is doing a fairly good job of organizing this mess we call the internet.  I am doing a decent job of saving, subscribing and curating my favorite content.  But make no mistake the internet is going to get out of hand.  I’ve often cited, and you’ve probably heard, Eric Schmidt’s quote about the amount of data being created today, in 2010.

“Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until  2003, according to Schmidt. That’s something like five exabytes of data” -Eric Schmidt, CEO Google

What interesting is that virtually no one cites the follow up to that statement:

“I spend most of my time assuming the world is not ready for the technology revolution that will be happening to them soon.” -Eric Schmidt, CEO Google.

Take a second to really think about this because it’s profound.  We are creating data every 2 days in the amount that it took the previous multitude of centuries.  That’s unbelievable.