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We seem to be heading for vocabulary exhaustion. In a time when “extreme” is a common marketing adjective we’re running out of superlatives. So the term “tsunami”—the biggest of all waves—was used at BIOSILICO to describe the rate of data generation in life science. And just as a tsunami slamming the coastline is a big problem, the wealth of data ...

Yahoo! News – 5 ‘exabytes’ of information created in ’02, report says If you feel like you’re drowning in stuff coming through your computer, it’s official: you are.

Thanks to the FI Center I was able to attend a conference at Stanford a little while ago called BIOSILICO 2003 organized by Scientific American. It’s taken me a while to let the deluge of technical information and bioinformatics industry insider-jargon settle into a few themes that I can pull together. Over the next few days I’d like to recap ...

InfoWorld: Tech CEOs defend offshore outsourcing: October 22, 2003: By Tom Sullivan: Platforms “U.S. domination of the IT era has ended … and the prosperity enjoyed by developed nations is cascading down to developing nations, at least those that embrace the information age.”