The world’s data explained: how much we’re producing and where it’s all stored

Original language	English
Specialist publication	The Conversation
Publication status	Published - 4 May 2021

Keywords

• Big Data
• Information
• digital data storage

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• https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-data-explained-how-much-were-producing-and-where-its-all-stored-159964

Research output

Research outputs per year 2019 2019 2020 2020

• 2 Article

Research outputs per year

Research outputs per year

• The information catastrophe

  Vopson, M., 11 Aug 2020, In: AIP Advances. 10, 8, 4 p., 085014.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • information 100%
  • Information 100%
  • power 50%
  • energy 50%
  • Catastrophe 50%
  271 Downloads (Pure)

• The mass-energy-information equivalence principle

  Vopson, M., 6 Sept 2019, In: AIP Advances. 9, 4 p., 095206.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • information 100%
  • Information 100%
  • energy 28%
  • Equivalence 28%
  • devices 14%
  331 Downloads (Pure)

Projects

Projects per year 2018 2018 2019 2019

• 1 Finished
• 1 Active

Projects per year

• Applications of Information Theory to fundamental Physics

  Vopson, M. & Robson, S.

  Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

  3/06/19 → …

  Project: Research

  • information 100%
  • Information 51%
  • universe 34%
  • Universe 34%
  • entropy 32%

• AFRAM: Anti ferroelectric materials for non volatile digital data storage applications

  Vopson, M.

  2/07/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Innovation

  • ferroelectric materials 100%
  • Antiferroelectricity 53%
  • polarization 52%
  • Polarization 52%
  • Memory 51%

Activities

Activities per year 2021 2021 2022 2022

• 1 Editorial activity
• 1 Membership of board

Activities per year

• Information Physics Institute (External organisation)

  Melvin Vopson (Chair), Anna Vopson (Chair) & Serban Lepadatu (Member)

  15 Sept 2022

  Activity: Membership types › Membership of board

• Applied Sciences (Switzerland) (Journal)

  Melvin Vopson (Guest editor) & Jaewoo Joo (Guest editor)

  1 Jul 2021 → 31 Dec 2021

  Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity

Press/Media

• Digital content will be half 'Earth's mass' by 2245 as 'information catastrophe' looms

  Melvin Vopson

  11/08/20 → 19/09/20

  21 items of Media coverage

  Press/Media: Research cited

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Vopson, M. (2021). The world’s data explained: how much we’re producing and where it’s all stored. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-data-explained-how-much-were-producing-and-where-its-all-stored-159964

Vopson, Melvin. / The world’s data explained: how much we’re producing and where it’s all stored. In: The Conversation. 2021.

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