Data is everwhere these days- it works inside your PC, your ipod and even your toaster. More and more data-hungry devices are being launched onto the market and consumers are eager to snap them up. Very few commentators though have been brave enough to face up to the problem of data depletion and wastage. As any computer scientist knows there is a large, but none the less finite, store of data available to technology manufacturers. If we continue to use data bits at the current rate (an estimated 1.21 Jigawatts per person per year) by 2015 remaining stocks of data will be seriously limited and we could be facing a technological catastrophy more devistating even than the Millennium Bug.
Industry have been keen to play down the risks of data depletion, however one group of forward thinking Bristolian scientists have launched a project to recycle and reuse old data from documents and images that are no longer needed. Do your bit and visit the Data Recycling website today. This post was created using 92% recycled data.
Some data, yesterday