Internet resources: Within two years information on the Internet will double every 11 hours

Within two years information on the Internet will double every 11 hours, announced Dave Evans, Cisco Chief Futurist in his Technology Predictions report.

A rapid growth of information is influenced by the improved ways of its storage as well as successes of the communications. By 2010 worldwide the average person will maintain 130 terabytes of personal data (today it is 128 gigabytes). By 2015 people will create the equivalent of 92,5 million Library of Congress in one year, whereas the world’s data will increase sixfold in each of the next two years.

Today, we know 5 percent of what we will know in 50 years. By 2050 (assuming a global population of 9 billion), $1,000 worth of computing power will equal the processing power of all human brains on earth.