Science in Action (go to minute 20)
Information overload Ever felt overwhelmed by the amount of information that flows at you each day, from the radio, the TV, the internet, newspapers, speech, billboards etc, etc? Well, it is a lot – 295 exabytes of information (an exabyte is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes). This is according to scientists who have calculated all the information in the world, how much is stored everywhere including all the computers, video cassettes, books, in the memory of mobile phones.
