In an article in this morning's New York Times that is chiefly about the new NSA complex in Utah I found:
<begin extract> Because of smartphones, tablets, social media sites, e-mail and other forms of digital communications, the world creates 2.5 quintillion bytes of new data daily, according to I.B.M. </end extract> Times copy editors apparently judged that 'quintillion' would be more accessible to readers, but 1 q John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
