Original upload date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Sat, 30 Oct 2021 20:16:25 GMT
This animation presents several intuitive analogies that explain the growth and the current state of the world's technological capacity to store, communicate and compute information.
It is based o
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n the article:
Martin Hilbert & Priscila López (2011). The World's Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information. Science, 332(6025), 60-65.
http://http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6025/60 (accessible through http://www.martinhilbert.net/WorldInfoCapacity.html)
It was conceptualized, produced, and animated by Martin Hilbert, Gavin Wright, Stuart Allan, and Dan St. Pierre (www.proof-inc.com), with the support from The Economist and USC's Annenberg School of Communication.