Laboratory Equipment: Time Capsule Stored Under Swiss Alps
With the transition from paper to electronic, the volume of digital information we create, store and need to hold onto has exploded.
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), the size of the Digital Universe (the number of 1s and 0s that exist) will grow ten-fold from 161 billion gigabytes (exabytes) in 2007 to 1800 exabytes in 2011 – or 150 piles of books that stretch from the Earth to the Sun. It is predicted to double every 18 months…read more
