By 2025, Nearly 30 Percent of Data Generated Will Be Real-Time, IDC Says (zdnet.com) 45
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: As global connectivity grows, allowing more data to be generated and collected, a growing portion of that data will be real-time information, according to IDC. By 2025, nearly 30 percent of the so-called "global datasphere" will be real-time information, IDC says in a new white paper, sponsored by Seagate. By comparison, real-time data represented 15 percent of the datasphere in 2017, according to the report. IDC defines the "global datasphere" as "the quantification of the amount of data created, captured, and replicated across the world." All told, of the 150 billion devices that will be connected across the globe in 2025, most will be creating real-time data, IDC says. The global datasphere is expected to grow from 23 Zettabytes (ZB) in 2017 to 175 ZB by 2025. One zettabyte is equivalent to a trillion gigabytes.
Boom! Bazaar! (Score:1)
And all it takes is one tiny EMP to reduce that to 0 bytes/s, in a second.
Someone is high on the kool-aid again (Score:1)
Yes, go write a few books about how wonderful the future is going to be. Rich, famous, visionary, all that rot.
Still haven't the faintest what you're on about, except another dotcom-era round of smoking the good stuff.
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It adds up quickly (Score:2)
In my business, we are transitioning from daily to 15-minute intervals for all of our few million data points. That's like 100 times more data per day. Plus we are collecting 3 to 10 times more measurements at those points. When the upgrade is complete, we'll collect more data in a few months than we have in the past 20 years. And that is not even real time data. Transferring and storing all that data is not cheap, and the uses for it are very vague and hopeful.
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If you collected it, it isn't real-time data.
If nobody collected it, it might be.
The computer inside an op-amp is operating on real-time data; a network switch is operating on real-time data. The controller inside a mouse or keyboard is operating on real-time data; but the desktop computer it hands that data over to is not.
and 99%+ of that data.. (Score:2, Informative)
will be absolutely and totally unnecessary for the main function(s) of the 'devices', and exists and is collected solely to track the devices and their users, and to sell crap and ads (or ads of crap)..
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What makes you think that isn't the main function of the devices?
In the Year 2025 ... (Score:3)
Perhaps by 2025 they will have realsised that this data is not worth what it is cracked up to be. Of course FTTB it is worth it to those at the top of the pyramid sale, but one day it will dawn to those propping it up at the bottom that they are being taken for a ride (just to mix metaphores). When this happens the pyramid will collapse and the smart money will be on the popcorn sales. Just like Dotcom.
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It's nuts already, 28 ZetaBytes is 27 trillion TeraBytes, that's several terabytes per person on the planet including the ones struggling to feed themselves.
Who is storing a ton of terabytes per person? I find it very difficult to believe there's a valid and strong business case for doing so. So I expect it's mostly governments snooping on people and keeping far more info than necessary, especially G20 countries.
App idea: Bleedr (Score:2)
Generates the user's blood type in real time. Also "handy" as an antitheft measure if an unrecognized fingerprint is offered at an unlock screen.
Gory details left to your imagination to make them even worse.
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All the more reason to fight for your privacy (Score:2)
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Sadly the masses don't care about their lack of privacy in the modern era. AT ALL.
Until it has a bigger, lasting effect nothing will change.
Cases in point:
* Look at all the data Facebook sold -- if people were smart they would stop freely giving their data over to companies that only care about profiting from selling it. Very few people are willing to give up their social addictions.
* Windows 10 has become spyware but do you see any mass boycott movement? Nope. Even techies have been brainwashed into making
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WRONG! You have to keep talking about it so the message spreads.
And, as a corrolary (Score:2)
our ability to understand what's going on will become ever more biased towards snap judgments.
After 10ms that information is no longer realtime (Score:1)
I don't get the point. What is this 30% in reference to and what's a global data sphere? Isn't a huge percentage of all data now and even in 2010 real-time, but is discarded or never hits the internet?
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All data is collected in real time. 100%
There is no such thing as collecting old, non real-time data.
I think they just have a new marketing meme.
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Ever hear about an ice core, or an archaeological dig?
What about astronomy?
Or even, a low-pass filter?
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Even when you're collecting information about something old, you're collecting it in real time.
Collect my name now in real time. I'm old but the data collection is in real time.
Everything is collected in real time. Everything is analyzed and used at some later time (not real time).
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You're mistaken; the act of collecting the data is not actually the data.
Sure, if you mix up the verbs and nouns, what I said stops making sense. That will always be true.
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Probably best to stop before we go down a wormhole of semantics.
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No don't. It's fun watching it happen, in real time. ;)
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If you don't want to fall down a slippery slope, don't resort to "no lines can be drawn because then if you make any distinction I'll have to run all the way to either infinity or negative infinity!"
Simply don't run at infinity when you disagree about the location of the line; instead, talk about the actual problem with the line.
How about this; if you have to hold a logic line at some level to force a latch to keep storing the "current" value, and to get the next value you have to reset the latch, then that
great (Score:3)
and how much of that massive amount of data is actually useful for the user?
i imagine most of this data will be spy/trackware.