Editing Information Age (section)

===Information storage and Kryder's law===
{{main|Data storage|Computer data storage}}

[[File:Analog_to_digital_transition.jpg|thumb|300px| Hilbert & López (2011). The World's Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information. Science, 332(6025), 60–65.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hilbert |first1=Martin |last2=López |first2=Priscila |date=April 2011 |title=The World's Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1200970 |journal=Science |language=en |volume=332 |issue=6025 |pages=60–65 |doi=10.1126/science.1200970 |pmid=21310967 |bibcode=2011Sci...332...60H |issn=0036-8075}}</ref>]] 
The world's technological capacity to store information grew from 2.6 (optimally [[Data compression|compressed]]) [[exabyte]]s (EB) in 1986 to 15.8 EB in 1993; over 54.5 EB in 2000; and to 295 (optimally compressed) EB in 2007.<ref name="HilbertLopez2011" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hilbert, Martin R.|title=Supporting online material for the world's technological capacity to store, communicate, and compute infrormation|date=2011|publisher=Science/AAAS|oclc=755633889}}</ref> This is the informational equivalent to less than one 730-[[megabyte]] (MB) [[CD-ROM]] per person in 1986 (539&nbsp;MB per person); roughly four CD-ROM per person in 1993; twelve CD-ROM per person in the year 2000; and almost sixty-one CD-ROM per person in 2007.<ref name="HilbertLopez2011">{{Cite journal|last1=Hilbert |first1= Martin |last2=López|first2=Priscila|year=2011|title=The World's Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information|journal=Science|volume=332|issue=6025|pages=60–65|doi=10.1126/science.1200970|issn=0036-8075|pmid=21310967|bibcode=2011Sci...332...60H|s2cid=206531385|doi-access=free}}</ref> It is estimated that the world's capacity to store information has reached 5 [[zettabyte]]s in 2014,<ref name="InfoBiosphere2016">{{Cite journal |last1=Gillings|first1=Michael R.|last2=Hilbert|first2=Martin|last3=Kemp|first3=Darrell J.|year=2016|title=Information in the Biosphere: Biological and Digital Worlds|url=http://escholarship.org/uc/item/38f4b791|journal=[[Trends in Ecology & Evolution]] |volume= 31|issue=3|pages=180–189|doi=10.1016/j.tree.2015.12.013|pmid=26777788|bibcode=2016TEcoE..31..180G |s2cid=3561873|access-date=2016-08-22|archive-date=2016-06-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604174011/http://escholarship.org/uc/item/38f4b791|url-status=live}}</ref> the informational equivalent of 4,500 stacks of printed books from the earth to the [[sun]].{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}

The amount of [[digital data]] stored appears to be growing approximately [[Exponential growth|exponentially]], reminiscent of [[Moore's law]]. As such, [[Kryder's law]] prescribes that the amount of storage space available appears to be growing approximately exponentially.<ref>Gantz, John; David Reinsel (2012). [https://www.speicherguide.de/download/dokus/IDC-Digital-Universe-Studie-iView-11.12.pdf "The Digital Universe in 2020: Big Data, Bigger Digital Shadows, and Biggest Growth in the Far East".] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610034720/https://www.speicherguide.de/download/dokus/IDC-Digital-Universe-Studie-iView-11.12.pdf |date=2020-06-10 }} ''IDC iView.'' {{S2CID|112313325}}. [https://www.emc.com/leadership/digital-universe/2012iview/index.htm View multimedia content] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200524020336/https://www.emc.com/leadership/digital-universe/2012iview/index.htm |date=2020-05-24 }}.</ref><ref>
Rizzatti, Lauro. 14 September 2016. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160916195434/https://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1330462 "Digital Data Storage is Undergoing Mind-Boggling Growth".] ''[[EE Times]]''. Archived from the [https://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1330462 original] on 16 September 2016.
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