The Art of Information

For the first time in late 2009 mobile data traffic surpassed voice traffic according to Ericsson, wireless device vendor. More than 140 Petabytes of mobile data traffic traversed global broadband wireless networks in December 2009 (keep reading for some context on that amount of capacity). Hans Vestberg, Ericsson President and CEO attributed the growth to [...]

While Google has been making headlines on dry land from its challenges in China, the company’s investment in a $300 million ultra-highspeed fiber optic link to Japan is nearly ready to begin paying dividends. Google’s promise to boost bandwidth by 20% to Netizens in these countries is nice – but that said, based on the [...]

My recent trip to Japan and China reaffirmed my respect for and amazement of these ancient, but amazingly vibrant and modern cultures. Spending a brief 10 days in and around Tokyo and different areas of Hong Kong also illustrated for me firsthand what a critical role these countries and this region will play in the [...]

The week’s travels throughout Japan and to Hong Kong only strengthened my position that digital information is the global currency.  While visiting a variety of HDS’ and Hitachi Ltd’s divisions here, one in particular brought home how small our world has become that data, albeit in different languages and forms, is the most universal asset [...]

Tadahiro Kuroda, an electrical engineering professor at Keio University in Japan has proposed a novel method for ultra-longterm digital storage. Kuroda calls his invention the “Digital Rosetta Stone” (DRS), which is nearly as evocative a name as are the possibilities his invention may hold. With all the information we’re creating today, we need a more suitable [...]

In 2010 alone, we will create 5-10 times the amount of information EVER created. What’s more, the pace of digital information creation is accelerating. Whether using Moore’s, Metcalf’s or any other law you might like to measure against – the “up-and-to-the-right curve” of information growth is arcing more and more vertical – outpacing all historical [...]