1.281 exabytes about 3 million times the information in all the books ever written. the amount of information created will surpass, for the first time, the storage capacity available 62% growth ~35 Zettabyte 44 TIMES AS BIG as it was in 2009

2. Aquarius the water carrier (right), and the three faces of the New Year - past, present and future http://www.paradoxplace.com/Photo%20Pages/France/Chartres/Zodiac_Window/Individual_ZodiacsA_Aqua rius_to_Taurus.htm#Aquarius The famous Sombrero galaxy (M104) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M104_ngc4594_sombrero_galaxy_hi-res.jpg Atomium Brussels http://atomium.be/ Dr. Robert Goddard at Clark Universityhttp://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2002-000130.html http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/4479013489/ extranoise (flikr) http://www.flickr.com/photos/extranoise/278465198/sizes/o/in/gallery-molisedigitale- 72157622571662556/ California Gold Rush http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gullgraver_1850_California.jpg Historisches Archiv Erfassungszentrum 13.03.2009 Archivgut nach Bergung und grober Reinigung http://www.stadt-koeln.de/1/presseservice/03305/Larry Landolfi; The summer Milky Way seems to stand on end over this lonely, deserted road in Texas. Composite photo. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap071020.html Map of Science http://www.lanl.gov/news/index.php/fuseaction/home.story/story_id/15960 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0