Archive for the 'Information' Category
Information Nation, indeed!
Posted in Digital Information, Information on January 19th, 2010 5 Comments »
In 2008 Americans consumed 3.6 Zettabytes (that’s 10 to the 21st power bytes or 3,600,000,000,000 Gigabytes, of information. That’s equivalent to filling 14.5 Million hard drives of an average 250GB capacity. The most shocking fact? This measurement ONLY represents information “consumed”, not created, and doesn’t include work-related information, only personal or at-home usage.
Of Clouds, Content, and Crossroads
Posted in Cloud Computing, HDS, Information, Technology, Transformation on December 16th, 2009 5 Comments »
Shame on us technology vendors for making “Cloud Computing” more intimidating of a concept that it need be.
Information Transformation
Posted in Apple, Digital Information, Google, HDS, Information, Transformation on November 10th, 2009 3 Comments »
Data, the raw resource of today’s economy, is like its analogs in other industries and eras of history: coal, iron, oil, water. However data itself has little intrinsic value, though its potential value is enormous.
The art of information
Posted in Digital Information, HDS, Inaugural Post, Information on November 3rd, 2009 3 Comments »
Welcome! The premise of this blog is simple, but its impact and implications are continually rewriting long-held rules and forever altering the balance of power in economics, law, retail, entertainment, real estate, politics, healthcare, nearly ever industry and your own personal and professional lives.
