A Washington Post article I received from Nan Rubin through the AMIA listserv caught my attention last week. The article, a cursory level discussion of the Rise of the Digital Age provided a good snapshot of the enormous growth of digital information in comparison to older analog mediums. The graph is a particularly good illustration of this phenomenon. 


The article introduces the term Exobytes to the "non-nerd" but more importantly, it touches upon some very real concerns surrounding the se...

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